“I concede that your technology far exceeds my understanding. It’s indistinguishable from human ideas of magic and acts of God. Even in the fields of art and poetry, you’ve astonished me. Despite such an enormous cultural, spatial, and temporal gap, you’ve managed to sense the hidden nuances of Classical Chinese poetry.… But understanding Li Bai is one matter, and exceeding him is another. I continue to believe that you face an unsurpassable body of art.”