Just a Gwai Lo fun within prescribed limits [?]

Jay McCarthy after watching his house burn this morning, before it crashed down: “I called Amanda and let her know what was going on and said to her that this will probably change my outlook on life for quite some time. Even now, before it has even really set in and before I've had a chance to fully comprehend what happened I'm thinking of ways I may run my life differently. Silly things like, maybe it isn't so important to save the box that my Apple computer came in, or maybe I should just read books at a library rather than saving them so that they rot away on a shelf. I feel a very New-Age-lame feeling about the impermanence of material possessions.”