Page 161 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly before they can use them. Let all provisions be destroyed which they are eager to secure. Thus they will perish like shrimps in a frying pan. 162 Issue 101 page ...
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Page 162 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly Breach The big-nosed barbarians claimed they came for peace, but they brought twenty thousand troops from the sea. They meant to despoil our land, so we fought them with every means. To our surprise, they wanted to tal ...
Page 163 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly After all its treasures were plundered Lord Elgin sent our Emperor a word by torching his favorite park —the smoke flying north choked the Son of Heaven to death three hundred miles away. 164 Issue 101 page ...
Page 165 from Issue 101 The Rebel Leaders In a godless land every hero may become a god. When Hong failed the examination again— his dream of being an official shattered, he was carried home and for days remained in bed, delirious, sweating, prattling. He ...
Page 167 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly Starting Off The bell was tolling as fire was crackling in the pottery braziers. Three hundred men gathered before the shrine holding halberds, swords, shovels, forks. A few knelt before the statue of a local god, who ...
Page 169 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly and didn't know where to get. They knocked me to the ground, kicked my face, caught our hens and took my daughter away. 169 Issue 101 page ...
Page 171 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly The Victory When Prince Chun was sent to Germany to apologize for the assassination of Baron von Ketteler, the Germans wanted him to kowtow at the Kaiser's feet in addition to offering them Shandong province, ...
Page 173 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly It's true I was a coward, to whom honor and bravery were merely phantoms. But children of future, remember I died alone—unlike those heroes and generals, I didn't bring underground another soul. 173 I ...
Page 212 from Issue 101 TriQuarterly a forest of felled iron. The I is a pine— resinous, flammable root to crown— which throws its cones as far as it can in a fire. 212 Issue 101 page ...
