The fight ended, I fell to pondering how I could strip the shaggy hide from the dead brute’s limbs—a troublesome task indeed, for when I tried, I could not cut it either with iron or with stone or [otherhow]. But then some god put in my mind the thought to sever the lion’s ...
[Sun Wukong] changed into a tiny insect and entered my mother’s belly. He stayed there a while and caused her no end of agony. When my mother could no longer bear the pain, she had no choice but to give the Banana-leaf Fan to my father, Monkey [1] … In the fifth month of t...
By James Bacon:The deadline forJourney Planet – Be the Change— is imminent, the 17th of May has raced up, and this is a last-minute shout-out to fans, to submit their pieces tojourneyplanetsubmissions@gmail.com We are looking for next steps, solutions, where we go from here, and m...
to this musical identity for another seven years. Much like that other great and unpredictable musical independent Bob Dylan, Fripp has little interest in arriving at his destination, all too aware that the music can only remain relevant if you can maintain a constant state of becoming. The ...
In fact, that worked even better than expected, as the stage play begins after the action of the story has ended, with the protagonist (Arthur Kipps) asking a young actor to help him tell the story. So it was quite easy to imagine the Kipps of the ITV version going on to be the ...
In forging our life together we have had to be stubborn, we’ve had to find resolve when hope was beyond low, we’ve had to persist. Our marriage started in a crucible. A test of long distance and uncertain danger from the beginning. I want to share that story. I want to celebrate...
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But what are you supposed to say about David Bowie that hasn’t been said a thousand times before? Millions of words will be written and spoken about him over the next few days. The same stories, tropes and cliches will be repeated ad nauseam and young people will be wondering what all...
I was studying the attire and textures of the Beijing Opera Monkey King, and the 1996 Journey to the West version of Sun Wukong. I love contrasting warm oranges and yellows against a nice sky-blue color. I ended up entering this diptych into an arts competition at my college and won the...
The Journey to the West Research blog is proud to host a guest post by the very knowledgeable @ryin-silverfish of Tumblr. They managed to track down a digital copy of the script for Tripitaka Seeks the Scriptures (Sanzang Qujing, 三藏取经), an extremely rare Journey to the West (Xiyouji...