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1. A sea of droppings... Literary legend describes Li Ho as a man of kuei-ts'ai who composed his haunting verses by jotting down single lines on small slips of paper while on horseback, dropping the slips into an embroidered black bag, and assembling a finished poem each evening. --from Encyclopedia Brittannica