The time had come, Dundee acknowledged, to decide if he was serious about making a run for the roses. It was only mid-1990, but presidential campaigns had evolved into two-year affairs, and if he really had that famous fire in his belly, now was the time.

Snarks cut in. I know all about that sort of thing! And I can tell a demon from a phantom as well as the next magical creature! Yes, the Brownie replied. But did you? Listen, short stuff! Snarks was shouting now.

As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship.

Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to happy up.