Skulls may haunt even without being so bitterly provoked. The country of Ch'u-cheu (in Chekiang province) is very mountainous. There, in the district of Li-shui, situated south of the peak of the Residence of the Immortal Genies, farmers plowing and sowing often break up waste ground, even as far as halfway up the mountains.

I can honestly say that my attitude to my body became markedly better when I accepted that I was fat. . . . Often more offensive terms are used. Full-figured, big-boned, voluptuous, curvaceous, and my least favourite: real woman.

The interior of the prison flashed white with suddenly-turned faces. The gloom scintillated, as it were, with rapidly-moving hands.

As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.