It breaks us from the habit of seeing preofficial life as a simple preparatory imitation of the career to come, and from thinking of literati men as if they had always been incumbent officials […]

the stroke of death

Research on the oracle bones, scientific excavations at Anyang and elsewhere, and other investigations and discoveries have not served merely to thow light on the civilization of late Shang and early Chou times.

That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].