Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 2 (of 2)

part is like the string of the bow; it is enclosed by a wall of sharp

swords. It is 490 feet high; its sides are knife-blades; and the whole is in sixty-three storeys. No good shade comes to this Terrace; neither do those whose balance of good and evil is exact. Wicked souls alone behold their homes close by and can see and hear what is going on. They hear old and young talking toge...