His main customer is known as Rat, a lean, darting, reddish man with a sniff of what could be an Irish accent and a wristful of watches.

I felt myself masculine, the protector of the weak, the fighting male. And, best of all, I felt myself the protector of my loved one. She leaned against me.

An incredibly fucked-up parody of B-horror movies with a bizarro slant.

We investigated a group of 46 wives who either were employed in factories or had been. They lived in Shanghai, Wusih, and in villages in Kiangsu. Of this group 17 had more power than their husbands, 5 had equal power, 10 were consulted by their husbands in all matters and their advice carried weight though the husbands had the last word, 4 were consulted from time to time, sometimes only for the sake of appearances, and 10 were never consulted, had no right to dispose of their earnings, and were like old-fashioned wives.