Simon, an English friend a year above me at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), went to Taipei and found there was a No. 0 bus. He immediately thought, "A bus that goes nowhere!" It turned out to be a circular route: a clockwise one and an anti-clockwise one. We did call it 0 南 (líng nán / “zero south”) and 0 北 (líng běi / “zero north”) though, so Simon had a point.
(Taipei, 1981)
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