Ways of “living off the books” included magically disguising clothing or a sword as a body (fig. 2), ritually bribing the gods of life and death with a golden statue to be used as a substitute body, or inserting a fake death certificate into the coffin of a recently deceased grandfathe...
Late comment, but FSYY also puts Ming dynasty gunpowder weapons into the 11th BCE Shang dynasty setting. Apart from the numerous mentions of “cannons go boom”, In Chapter 56, they broke Deng Jiugong’s ambush-disguised-as-wedding by hiding a cannon in the gift casket and using it to ma...
others more. Observing other people’s ways of doing things, we can be brought to an awareness that our way of seeing the world is but one way of viewing reality, and that there can be equally valid ways of responding to and interacting with life. Or at least become aware of how our ...
As God leads, I will continue to share our story in whatever ways He sets before me. However, this blog has never really been about Patrick. It has always been a part of a much larger story…God’s story. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Psalm 63:...
They live a life separate from you and they’re changing, too. They’re still your family, or friends (and devastatingly, you lose those, too), but they’re on a different continent and you can’t bridge that gap no matter how badly you wish it so. Truthfully, in some ways, you’...
As God leads, I will continue to share our story in whatever ways He sets before me. However, this blog has never really been about Patrick. It has always been a part of a much larger story…God’s story. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Psalm 63:...
Barr’s simple writing style – the story is told in short, often naive and startling honest sentences – is beautifully effective. Flora has to order the things around her – in her head, in her life – in simple ways, and filter straight through to the important things. She has no ti...
The novel treats this as separate (ch. 75) from the “body beyond body,” which is also known by this name. Mimic magic –This allows him to make someone look like a different person. This involves an oral spell, the immortal breath, and a mud mask. He uses this to change his ...
It is seven feet in height, it can imitate the ways of human beings and is able to run fast in pursuit of them. It is named Jia-guo 猳國 or Ma-hua 馬化; some call it Jue 貜. It watches out for young women travelling on the road and seizes and bears them away without anyone ...
For instance, the Song-era text Master Ghost Valley’s Numinous Writ of the Essence of Heaven (Guigu zi tiansui lingwen, 鬼谷子天隨靈文) calls the titular character the “Master of the Waterfall Cave” (Shuilian dong zhu, 水濂洞主). In this case, the source uses a different lian (...