What words are spoken of in silence? Can one grasp the wind? A flower and not a flower; of mist yet not of mist; at midnight she was there; she went as daylight shone. She came for a little while was like a dream of spring, and then, as morning clouds that vanish traceless, she was gone. Gwong-Jau (Canton), China, July 1834: wealthy British-Sicilian opium smuggler Charles Paul Sansovino (28 years) falls for exquisite, snake tattooed Chinese boat-girl...