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...pages of the News. The monkey and the anteater are parts of the act. So is his official pseudonym in the News: El Toro Ferdiliza. And so are the screwy lines which stud Editor Doster's paper (OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: SLAPHAPPY. OUR MOTTO: "Blessed be he who bloweth hsi own horn, for his'n shall be blowed...
...sort of Oriental Decameron, Chin P'ing Mei tells the story of a rich young rakehell named Hsi Men, of whom it was said that "unless they are concubines of the Prince of Hell himself, they belong to the harem of wealthy Hsi Men." Fretful because he is not ten men, something of a sadist (though a pleasant fellow at times), Hsi is figuratively said to enjoy "spending his nights among blossoms and willows." The details are put much more plainly...
Because of the number and frequency of Hsi's seductions, they tend to grow somewhat wearisome. More diverting is the spirited account of Hsi's relations with his six wives. They comprise an amazing harem, a-seethe with complex jealousies and intrigues which mostly originate with a voluptuous, canny beauty named Gold Lotus, who knows how to lead Hsi around by the nose...
Lest readers doubt the author's moral purpose, Hsi's only son is clawed to death by Gold Lotus' cat. Hsi himself dies in his prime from an overdose of aphrodisiac pills...
Where were Hsi and Ho? Where were the court astronomers? On this day in ancient China, some two millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...