The purpose of government was the guarding of property-rights, the perpetuation of ancient force and modern fraud. Or was it marriage? Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man’s exploitation of the sex-pleasure.

There is a class of horses called ‘resurrectionists’... and they either recover early form... or... become animated, when they were supposed to be gone altogether, with... life and vigour.

This song explains that the fine climate of Zhouzhi produced admirable figures like Lanqing and Zhang Fu'ao.

The word I was looking for, I suppose, was sphingine – I thought of the baleful prehistoric smile of the Mycenaean women.