The Chinese, ever since the first century of our era, have called the countries which we to-day name Kashgar and Sungaria, routes. They referred them to their relative position on the two sides of the Tian-Shan, and called our Sungaria, Pe-lu, northern route, and our Kashgar, Nan-lu, southern route. The Turks gave other names to these countries; they called the northern route besh-balik, the five cities, Pentapolis; the southern route was alti-shehr, the six cities, Hexapolis.

While an angstfic can focus mostly on emotional pain and never resolve it, actually doing something awful to a character, such as torture, rape, maiming, that kind of thing, seems to require a payoff. Otherwise it seems gratuitous, and also as if you're inviting people to take pleasure in a character's suffering.

Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)

The generation of combinatorial types of point configurations and hyperplane arrangements point configurations and hyperplane arrangements has long been an outstanding problem of combinatorial geometry.