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Sport 39: 2011
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Along the ancient road to the capital fields of sunflowers lit the way, but dimly, drooping, nodding off as autumn began to splash out in the forest.
page 137A pheasant broke from a thicket of firs, flying the colours of a fabulous dynasty.
In an alpine village millwheels turned back the clock. Painters copied them. Film crews had travelled from the far corners of the Jade Empire to admire the way the wooden buildings maintained themselves in perfect replica.
Strings of chillies held the heat of summer.
Beside the tumbling river persimmons ripened.