Friday, July 05, 2002

Can't wait for Harry Potter 5?
Go to Beijing, where "copyright" and "trademark" are just words. The fifth book in the series, Harry Potter and Leopard walk up to Dragon, is available there. The Chinese got tired of waiting, so they wrote one.

The opening paragraph:

Harry doesn�t know how long it will take to wash the sticky cream cake off his face. For a civilised young man it is disgusting to have dirt on any part of his body. He lies in the high-quality china bathtub, keeps wiping his face, and thinks about Dali�s face, which is as fat as the bottom of Aunt Penny.

Harry, stop thinking about your Aunt Penny's bottom. This isn't that kind of book. I hope.

I don't think even Harry Potter can defeat the Chinese intellectual property pirates. But he's gonna try.

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