The charm of the Middle kingdom . onment. I can only imagine the good they thoughtthey were doing themselves. As ticklers ofthe abdominal palate I can conceive of nothingmore efficacious than tadpoles, little ones. Asstimulants to the digestive organs they are,for all I know, quite without parallel. Butuntil they closed their little eyes in death Icant, for the life of me, understand how anymortal man. Pagan or Christian, could tolerate,even for an instant, a half hundred of themchasing their tails around his solar , they might conceivably be palatable seafood. Alive, they must be t


The charm of the Middle kingdom . onment. I can only imagine the good they thoughtthey were doing themselves. As ticklers ofthe abdominal palate I can conceive of nothingmore efficacious than tadpoles, little ones. Asstimulants to the digestive organs they are,for all I know, quite without parallel. Butuntil they closed their little eyes in death Icant, for the life of me, understand how anymortal man. Pagan or Christian, could tolerate,even for an instant, a half hundred of themchasing their tails around his solar , they might conceivably be palatable seafood. Alive, they must be torture, or elseNirvana. Perhaps they function so rapidlythat the total resultant sensation is like re-clining on a billowy couch with breezes blowingfrom an emerald sea. I have eaten hashish, that delectable Persiancondiment. I have felt the world and mymaterial sense slough off me like dead skin. Ihave experienced utter detachment of body andsoul, so that the latter ascended in a purple 130 .-yy,i//////i^//sVl I 7^W^^m¥¥f^>. PORCELAIN PAILOW NEAR THE SUMMER PALACE |»«ik


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