Dai-Yu’s heart felt as though oil, soy-sauce, sugar and vinegar had all been poured into it at once.

Zhou was cruel and lascivious and worst of all, deluded by his beautiful concubine Daji (who was, according to this novel, a fox sprite).

Is there more to this “I” than continuity of memory and love of eating what you call nose ice?

The Burned Furs died out in 2001. A new group using the name for a different purpose formed in 2005 but they called themselves Improved Anthropomorphics in 2007 to avoid confusion.

A coordinated-looking (though maybe it wasn’t) academic/corporate colonization effort successfully destroyed the “metal community” about a decade ago, and the events are invisible now.

If someone has one of the literally who’s come speak leave, your either not welcome there or simply revenue to who is running it. 

Crumdun was a fat, cheerful stoat in the crew of Razzid Wearat who had suffered many head wounds in fights.

“Associations with night before the 17th Century were not good,” he says.

There is, of course, another relatively common way of looking at Avellaneda. Rather than centering on him as a kind of “moral reprobate,” Avellaneda is studied as an exemplary “artistic failure.”

By about the time he reached Chapter IX, he told me that he felt his brain was shriveling and that to combat this he had begun learning Welsh.