I heard there's a lemon shortage. On that note, do we have any lemonade stocked up?
I walked right up to Ravus’s unconscious body with the intention of blasting his brains out, and that’s exactly what would have happened if the hot Fangorian who’d been escorting me to the table hadn’t pulled a blade from out of nowhere and held it up to my neck so hard that if I so much as breathed wrong I’d get a permanent shave.
Robbers and thieves rose up everywhere and the roads were impassable. For the first time commissioners appointed directly by the Emperor were sent out, clothed in embroidered silk and bearing axes, to exterminate the bandits in the commanderies and the kingdoms, and only then was the danger overcome. For these reasons, in his latter days [Wu ti] abandoned the lands of Lun-t'ai and pro- claimed a decree expressing anguish and sorrow.’
The tale thus underscores in expressive form the semiparadoxical fact that traders can lie by telling the truth.
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