The manifest shortens by one: Gopal Ouyang, 90 years. 3 children carry the line on.
Generation 3 · deceased
Gopal Ouyang
Died Year 144, Day 137, aged 90.
- Born
- Year 53, Day 352
- Department
- Medical
- Parents
- Lanying Ouyang · Galina Petrov
- Children
- Edith Salazar · Jamal Salazar · Yusuf Salazar
- “Sky for the Borrowed Anchor” — a poem, Year 79, Day 320
- “Bright Bell, Slow Garden” — a quilt, Year 86, Day 229
- “Three Corridors Standing” — a song, Year 116, Day 266
Gopal Ouyang stands down from Medical at sixty-eight, to the orchard benches and the long game of stones.
Gopal Ouyang has made a song called “Three Corridors Standing.” Asked what it means, he says it means about nine years of evenings.
The youngest aboard is now Yusuf Salazar, minutes old, asleep. 896 souls.
Gopal Ouyang finishes a quilt: “Bright Bell, Slow Garden.” It shows in the commons through the week.
Solveig Salazar and Gopal Ouyang name their son Jamal. The nursery lamps stay warm.
Gopal Ouyang finishes a poem: “Sky for the Borrowed Anchor.” It shows in the commons through the week.
Solveig Salazar and Gopal Ouyang name their daughter Edith. The nursery lamps stay warm.
A joining in Ring B: Gopal Ouyang and Solveig Salazar. The pressing of cider is authorized.
Gopal Ouyang chooses Medical — or it chooses him; the elders disagree cheerfully.
A birth in Ring A: Gopal, boy, generation 3. I have added the name to the manifest with the others.