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[one_true_andrew]

"The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they  called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he has gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices."

-The Diamond age.

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