Han Yu photographed by Lui Fo
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Fucking doing this cloud atlas deep dive and I've started with researching the phrase
"the weak are meat and the strong will eat"
and the man who wrote it
Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty.
Oh what a time Han Yu lived in, a time of great change and activity, the flood of Buddhism and Taoism caused him much worry. His world was filled with poetry, poetry was key to communication in his day to day experience. His time is reffered to as a "golden age of great antiquities" often across many different texts.
I am starting with Han Yu and I know that this is just the beginning.
Managed to find this handy book of analysis and translation.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sowen/files/owen_stephen_-_the_poetry_of_meng_chiao_and_han_yu.pdf
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EL RISCAL
Escabroso el riscal, la senda angosta;
pardea entre murciélagos el templo.
Me repara en las gradas fresca lluvia;
jazmín carnoso, anchado platanero.
Dice el monje de un buen fresco de Buda;
prende tea y me alumbra: todo vago.
Jergón y estera tiende, cuece sopa;
mezquina colación que basta al hambre.
Noche alta yazgo, callan los insectos;
la luna de la sierra entra en la celda.
Mal asendereado, parto al alba;
mil vericuetos, niebla vagarosa.
Monte rojo, aguas verdes, gayo caos;
pinos y arces de anchura inabarcable.
Piso descalzo canchos del torrente;
viento en la ropa entre fragor del agua.
Si son sal de la vida tales pasos,
¿por que los miramientos nos enfrenan?
Mas ¡ay! mis dos o tres buenos muchachos
¿cómo medraran si yo no tornase?
Han Yu
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山石
山石犖确行徑微 黃昏到寺蝙蝠飛
升堂坐階新雨足 芭蕉葉大梔子肥
僧言古壁佛畫好 以火來照所見稀
鋪床拂席置羹飯 疏糲亦足飽我飢
夜深靜臥百蟲絕 清月出嶺光入扉
天明獨去無道路 出入高下窮煙霏
山紅澗碧紛爛漫 時見松櫪皆十圍
當流赤足蹋澗石 水聲激激風吹衣
人生如此自可樂 豈必局束為人鞿
嗟哉吾黨二三子 安得至老不更歸
韓愈
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My #CityOfMist character in the Nights of Payne Town campaign accepts an unusual request in a bid to help an unexpected influx of patients, not knowing the depths he's signing up for.
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I'm continuing my deep dive into cloud atlas and I'm investigating Han Yu so I'll share some of that here.
The Pheasant Struck By An Arrow
Han Yü
On the plain fires burn with silent determination,
Field pheasant, fearing the hawk
Come out and sink back down again.
The general wishes to humble others by his skill,
Turns his horse around, bends his bow.
But holds back and does not shoot.
The area gradually gets narrower, onlookers increase,
The pheasant starts up, the bow stretched in full,
A strong arrow in the notch.
It soars abruptly upward, against the people,
More than a hundred feet,
Red pinions and the silvery barb follow
Toward one another slanting.
The general looks up and laughs, his officers congratulate him,
As many-colored feathers fall scattering before the horse.
From Page 21 of "the poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yü" by Owen Stephen
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The Buddy Bingo is the best addition to the series cause some of this information is just ???
• Saeko has 8 different apps on her phone to pay at stores
• Zhao has 20 pairs of the same glasses
• Seonhee cooks gyoza for everyone at the Geomijul pretty much every day
• Tomizawa's favorite food is MOVIE THEATER HOT DOGS
• Seonhee is lowkey an astrology girlie
• Joongi goes fucking nuts renting DVDs (Thank you Seonhee, very cool)
• Zhao is into gacha and a fucking whale to boot
• Nanba fought A FUCKING RACOON
• Tomi wants to run a café and go on a roadtrip with his friends and I think that shit is adorable
• Zhao wants to contact aliens
• Saeko works out lifting an 8 kilos pot
• Adachi's special skill is preparing the shogi board
• Chitose can dance. Saeko can't. Insert something sapphic
• Adachi learned flower language and how to surf to get laid
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