Plato propoundeth a Question (saith he) whether the Worlde was created after the patterne of a thing forecreated, or of a thing without beginning.

[T]he den of a man-eating tiger, or a mad dog, could not be more dreaded.

In November of 1975 he stepped forward with a public announcement that Chinese authorities had predicted the Haicheng earthquake. Hamilton’s version of the story again parroted the party line: a prediction made at top levels, relayed to local governments, a general evacuation of Haicheng and Yingkow on the afternoon of February 4. Thus the script, written in the East, was established in the West.

She had been completely natural from the first with him, utterly comfortable in her own skin.