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Sax Rohmer

  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    Secret of the atom bomb?”
    “Rot! There’s no secret about it. You know that as well as I do. Once a weapon of war is given publicity, it loses its usefulness. I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing-glove if the other fellow has one too. No. It’s something else.”
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    You mean the sallow man?”
    “Sallow? He’s Burmese! They’re not all Communists, you know.”
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    He was in New York at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and had been given almost autocratic powers by Washington.
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    That’s some kind of Asiatic. I saw his face!
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    “May I ask,” he growled, “since when Chinese have been admitted to membership?”
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    “What did he look like?”
    “Yellow.”
    “Indian?”
    “No, sir. Some kind of Oriental. Then, only today, right in my own club, I caught another Asiatic watching me!
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    Pompeian frescoes, and given an Egyptian cigarette and a cup of orange-scented China tea.
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    They were in many languages, including Greek, Chinese, and Arabic.
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    Professor Hoffmeyer had substituted a yellow house robe. The eyes which the glasses had concealed were long, narrow, and emerald-green. The uncovered hands had pointed fingernails. This gaunt, upright, Chinese ascetic was taller by inches than Professor Hoffmeyer.
    And his face might have inspired a painter seeking a model for the Fallen Angel.
    This not because it was so evil but because of a majestic and remorseless power which it possessed—a power which resided in the eyes. They were not the eyes of a normal man,
  • Tatianahas quoted9 days ago
    They were the eyes of one who has shaken off those inhibitions common to humanity, who is undisturbed by either love or hate, untouched by fear, unmoved by compassion.
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