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Baby Picture
Nine Years Old
Lankester & Wells
Seventeen
Soldiering
Return of the Dragon
New York City
Me and My Chevy
Picnic with the Chans
China (town)
China (country)
Photo booth
Wall Street
Here are some old pictures, pre-1986, from my family album.  Not many have survived, and most of those that have, were taken for some definite purpose.  This is partly because I have moved a lot, and things get lost, partly because I am averse to having my photograph taken.  (Though not as averse as G.H. Hardy — see Prime Obsession, p.229.)  I notice with interest that my son shares this aversion.

The "Navigate down" section in the bar at the left shows what's available.  Each photograph comes with a date and a brief description.

I have also included here some brief clips from my one movie appearance, with the late Bruce Lee in Return of the Dragon.


"Sir, among the anfractuosities of the human mind, I know not if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture." 

  — Boswell, Life of Johnson.

 

"At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the will of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ears were receptive to Truth..."

  Confucius, Analects II.iv

 

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