First came the paintings. Paintings of a "land of two blue suns and two violet moons, all shining at the same time". Out of them grew the words, one after the other, lined themselves up, and became a story. Thus was born the book 'Zhito and the Little Princess', which, in its somewhat winding way, tells the tale of that marvelous land, where "One day a terrible plague broke out"; of 'Zhito', who was a "creature, shining in many colors" and had a "deep,...