Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Robert van Gulik

Born: August 9, 1910
Died: September 24, 1967 (aged 57)
Bio: Robert Hans van Gulik was an orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
Known for:
- The Chinese Maze Murders (1951)
- The Chinese Bell Murders (1958)
- Judge Dee at Work (1967)
- The Haunted Monastery (1961)
- The Lacquer Screen (1962)







