Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.

“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor …”

“Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every tim…”

“How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the …”

“I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kon…”