Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest for such a trivial thing as personal happiness.

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The second problem is that as you will see reading through the comments to the various pages linked above, the actual thing that has been patented is both trivial and obvious: and patents are not supposed to be granted for things that are either trivial or obvious.

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