he’s not very pro-American and it drives him mad that the British Empire’s no more, that the U.S. is arbiter of the world’s fate and making obvious m… - James Clavell

and damned nomads in Mesopotamia have again cut the telegraph — another expeditionary force is being organized to deal with them once and for all!

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught — that with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.