Her sweetful voice that laughed so clear, / And her own nameless, winsome way, / The simple dress she loved to wear, / Eyes that but looked, and I drawn near— / Now closed in Night for aye!

[…] Deutscher's technique throughout his verbose trilogy is to go back and forth in time to profundify a given phenomenon.

3.For centuries, the waters surrounding the Diaoyutai Islands have been fishing grounds for fishermen from northeastern Taiwan. During the period of Japanese occupation, the Taiwan Governor-General Office in 1920 officially designated the Diaoyutai Islands and their surrounding waters as skipjack tuna fishing grounds for Taiwan fishermen. Five years later, in 1925, the Office published Taiwan Shuichan Yaolan (“Overview of Taiwan’s Aquaculture”) and reiterated that the Diaoyutai Islands and their surrounding waters were “important fishing grounds” for Taiwan. MOFA solemnly reiterates that it will not acknowledge any illegal assertion by the government or any politician of Japan that would affect the ROC’s sovereignty over the Diaoyutai Islands.

Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a twopenny-halfpenny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached!