fateful, gamely, sugarcane

Despite the first part of its name, sugarcane water has many health benefits: rich in iron, magnesium, potassium and calcium, it helps fight colds and fevers. From The Economist’s 1843 magazine



It was a steamy Monday in late December, when a taxi dropped me and my girlfriend, A'yen Tran, on a nondescript road an hour south of Ho Chi Minh City, near the village of Thu Thua. The smell of sawdust wafted from a nearby boatyard. A long junk drifted down the canal, transporting rice and sugarcane. As we hopped on our bikes and rode off, nearly everything appeared green — even the air, so thick with humidity that it obscured the sun.

A British spy, posted to the border as a passport control officer, tried gamely to delay Lenin from returning to Russia. But the authorities believed that a democratic country should not ban its own citizens from entry. For that mistake, millions died

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 "Lust, Caution" is obviously not an occasion for frivolity; it's about urgent purposes, closed-off characters and fateful events.

First Night

The story opens with a quotation from the poem "The Flower" by Ivan Turgenev:

"And was it his destined part

Only one moment in his life

To be close to your heart?

Or was he fated from the start

to live for just one fleeting instant,

within the purlieus of your heart."

Quote

"I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars." — David Lloyd George, in an Armistice Day speech to the House of Commons, 1918