When Dr. X started the cine, Judge Fang recognized it right away: This was the 
work of the mediagrapher PhyrePhox, who was still, as far as he knew, 
languishing in a holding cell in downtown Shanghai. The setting was an 
outcropping of stones amid a dun, dust-scoured vastitude, somewhere in the 
interior of China. The camera panned across the surrounding waste, and Judge 
Fang did not have to be told that these had once been fertile fields, before 
the water table had been drained out from under them.