Somewhere deep in their - at first glance - gentle blue eyes, the memory of opium transactions gleamed, and the lingering view of some harbour somewhere, filled with myriad shouts and a profusion of masts - Pusan, Mokpo, Dairun, Toentsin, Tsingtao, Shanghai, Keelung, Amoy, Hong Kong, Macao, Hanoi, Haiphong, Manila, Singapore.
Even after they had returned to their home country, the entry 'Far East hand' remained, a single, mysterious, dark line in black ink in their personal histories, For the rest of their lives they could not escape the tiny, ugly aura of glory that hovers over men who have thrust their hands into exotic soil in search of gold dust."
Yukio Mishima Forbidden Colours 1951

Dorothy Stang