Ribald Classic: The Unanswerable Question

September, 1982

Third Son Chang had the fortune, or misfortune, to marry the most beautiful girl in all the Middle Kingdom. Your opinion depends, of course, on whether or not you have ever been married to a true beauty. But the effect on Chang was that he no longer went to the countinghouse to work.He gazed endlessly at his wife's lovely face; he invented small games to play with her; he caressed her and royed with her: he made love to her many times during the day. In that way, the first six months of marriage...