[shasta]

Here's all of the foreshadowing sentences. Now you can read them three times. Enjoy:

Nobles and rich merchants invited him to their dinner tables, where he spoke gibberish while inhaling mouthfuls of bloody food. There was simply no conceptual framework in place to ask the question, “Aren’t you Caucasian?” The book contained illustrations of Formosan clothing, architecture, and a grill used to roast the hearts of little boys. He wrote 12 hours each day and sustained himself with 10 to 12 drops of opium mixed with a pint of punch.