The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.

Yet China, like Russia, is now giving us an object lesson in the usefulness of having an open society, where strongmen don’t get to invent their own reality.

Know of new woman: she shall evolute, God-born, as Issa-Lily in me now: Her sensely raiment trail in Hymen's spice; Her bosom lift twain towers of paradise.

I had now to take myself over, a going concern, and try to catch step with a swift-moving and clamorous world.