Tuesday, September the 7th, 2004
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“He appears occasionally on the scene, generally entrusted with some death-dealing commission, which he proceeds, scymeter in hand, or provided with bag, cord, box, or poison, to execute; we follow his actions with awe; when he disappears we know no more of him—his further life is shrouded in mystery.” — G Carter Stent, Chinese Eunuchs