Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia […]

It was easy to see how he had beglamored the youth of a nation.

The ownership of the Pratas Reef and the Macclesfield Bank, both situated closer to China than either Vietnam or the Philippines and smaller than the other two groups, has not been contested; they are Chinese, although with respect to the Macclesfield Bank, it is questionable how to own what lies underwater.…The Macclesfield Bank (Chungsha ch’ün-tao) consists of 24 shoals, 3 reefs and 2 banks, all of which are under water.

Listen, dawg, not for nothing, but I'm just horsing around with you when I say stuff like that.