I might have once naively presumed that all such smokeblowers and pill-poppers were heroic individuals sacrificing the safety of their minds and bodies in the hope of seeing the light of truth, as it were.

I use an electric kiln strictly for bisquing my pots.

A quickly produced suboptimal solution to a problem is often more useful than an optimal one that takes a long time to produce.

The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies'. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.]