The legend of China reaches back into the remotest shadows of the past. Even the myths which have come down from the period before history began contain no suggestion that the Chinese people came into their ancient kingdom from any other part of the world, as is so often the case with other races. Instead, the mythology of China begins with Pan-Ku, allegedly the first conscious being, who shaped the world out of chaos.]

Pistol. Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will charge you. / Doll Tearsheet. Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion.

Dawn and the others, much like ants, are oblivious to reality and live in the miniscule world of Buffydom (the kingdom of the Slayer), just as we might find ourselves marching like ants through our own lives in mindless routine.

He informed the Chinese that they must do his bidding lest the Anglo-French Expeditionary Force take Tientsin (T'ien-chin) and Peking, putting the West Europeans in a position to topple the dynasty.