This object is obtained by the use of an acoustical element, the soundy absorption characteristic of which is adjustable in a simple and convenient manner.

Breaking up is fairly easy. Sometimes you have a jerkass who won't take the hint.

the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature.

The village clings to the side of the hill and looks down over the broad valley of Meng-tsz. The view in all directions is superb, and the village is filthy. It deals principally with the two dirtiest commodities known to man—pigs and coal. The tin from the mines of Kochiu, both of which are on a spur railroad which branches off from the main line at a village called Pi-che-tchai.…The tin from the mines of Kochiu also passes through it, but only at intervals, whereas the pigs and the coal are its everyday affair.