The collection
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Luck & Signs
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Homophony as an operating system: numbers, puns, taboos.
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What Hong Kong pays for a number
The government auctions registration plates and publishes the results. It is the best evidence anyone has that homophony moves money.
通勝 tung1 sing3The book that renamed itself
An almanac that tells you which days are lucky, and which had to change its own name to stop being unlucky.
Notes from the collection
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