As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship.

Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to happy up.

The time had come, Dundee acknowledged, to decide if he was serious about making a run for the roses. It was only mid-1990, but presidential campaigns had evolved into two-year affairs, and if he really had that famous fire in his belly, now was the time.

Snarks cut in. I know all about that sort of thing! And I can tell a demon from a phantom as well as the next magical creature! Yes, the Brownie replied. But did you? Listen, short stuff! Snarks was shouting now.