When you generously, open-heartedly bless someone who has hurt or harmed you, incredible divine alchemy takes place.

Tossing, the negro walks up the trap-ladder. But the emotions of a drunkard change quickly.

A librarian who wants to present on an emerging technology in their library might not need an allotment of 45 minutes–roughly the standard amount of time given for an oral presentation or paper–but such a topic would be perfect combined with other presentations in a fast-paced, pecha-kucha style session or lightning round (in both cases each presenter is given a limited amount of time before an unsympathetic moderator cuts them off and the next presenter speaks).

The last zone, lying beyond the Ch‘ang-pai mountains, was in special isolation and culturally as retarded as regions much farther north.