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I’ve had to skate past a few passages in bedtime readings of All Men Are Brothers, but today, I awkwardly redacted three paragraphs of vengeance in real time.

But Ling Ch’ung cursed him, saying, “You criminal, I have been friends with you from youth up and yet you come here today to do me hurt! How dare you say this has nothing to do with you? Now eat my sword!”

And he tore apart Lu’s garments and screwed his knife about in the pit of Lu’s stomach and from Lu’s mouth and nose and ears blood flowed out. Then he cut out Lu’s liver and heart. As he turned his head to look about him, he saw the work master had recovered enough to creep up and begin to go away. Ling Ch’ung leaped on him and pressed him down and shouted out, “You thing, you have from the first been as evil as the other. Now eat my knife!”

Then he cut off the work master’s head and held it up on his spear and he came back and cut off the heads of the other two men also. Thrusting his knife back into his girdle, he took the three heads and tied them together by the hair and he carried them into the temple and placed them upon the altar before the mountain god.

I think I said something like, “Then he…where was I…knocked them out…and left.”