Ch'üan Ch'i was the scion of a great family of Feng-yang in Shang-lo [in present-day Shensi province].…At the beginning of the Hsiao-ch'ang reign-period [ad 525-7] he held the positions of major-general defending Lo-chou and prefect of Shang-lo.

to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France

The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!

Lethe in my flower / Of which they who drink / In the fadeless orchards / Hear the bobolink.