A time traveler enjoys spending time with the aged poet Tu Fu in 770 A.D.
Swimming strongly on my way back to what the sage called the remote future, my form began to flow and change according to time pressure. Sometimes my essence was like steam, sometimes like a mountain.

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  1. “The Small Stones of Tu Fu” by Brian Aldiss, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 1978.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Brian Aldiss