Natural time, social time, remembered time — these are the three kinds of time, the three lenses, through which I will try to view the Yangtzean world.

Madness, from this point of view, is not finally a medical phenomenon at all, but a phenomenon of social engineering, manipulation, and coercion, and of the politically motivated labeling of deviant behavior.

[T]he Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships.

Nevertheless, to relieve oneself takes the edge off the desire and doesn't take advantage of others.