RE: Puzzler's Space - Lesson 2: It is my Star who Sits in the Sky
09-08-2018, 06:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2018, 04:09 AM by Kaynato.)
Several uneventful days had passed since their last journey to the less typical and more interesting.
Like congealing porridge, time had begun to accumulate into a semi-solid slop, its nutrients diffusing uselessly into inseparable detritus and miscellany.
And then, suddenly, like the worms which grow in the neglected harvest, the unsustainable burden of time had begun to fester, and fell through.
That day, a person was sitting on the ground before the cottage, tearing at coarse clothes and bawling with great force.
"I wish for death! There is nothing in this world!" proclaimed this figure.
Liu Kui was woken up by this ruckus, and opened the door to go outside.
But the person was at a short distance from the door, and when it opened, it struck at the head and caused it to bleed.
The figure fell, knees against the ground, and cried out once more. "See! There truly is only pain in the world."
Puzzle 8: There may be pain in the world. Recently, pain was also discovered outside of the world. Despite the controversy surrounding these discoveries, scholars agree that the upcoming investigations into the nature of pain may unite domains of thought previously thought to be separate. Propose some possible unifications and their hypothetical avenues.
Then, without a word, Liu Kui dragged the person into the cottage, and draped about that hunched figure a spare cloak from the wall.
Ban Songqi at this time was roused from slumber by the intrusion. "Where did this rabble come from?"
Liu Kui replied, "From the street."
But Ban Songqi had seen through this immediately. "No - rather, they instead hail from the scholars of the faraway rivers."
"Though they purport to teach the way of the heavens, they are instead moved by the heavens. And when they shall say that they will alter the course of the waters, while entering their feet to the rapid streams, they will be ripped into the current."
"All the while they scream at these proceedings, and afterward they will be self-assured. They will claim the teachings of nature like a thief in the gallery."
Then Ban Songqi stood from the bed, still wrapped in the bedding, and took an empty flask to Liu Kui.
"Fill this with water."
So Liu Kui wordlessly did.
Then Ban Songqi drank half the water, and returned to bed.
Seeing this, Liu Kui immediately rose, incensed at this apparently callous attitude, and stumbled forward, but tripped on the cloak of the stranger and became tangled in the cloth and unable to see.
The stranger, having secretly kept one eye open throughout all these events, grabbed the flask, and drank the remainder in one gulp.
Puzzle 9: Identify the truth, the flaw, and the hazard in the following: (Sample from the texts of the faraway river school, dated approx. 291 years prior) - Quick is the lightning when it strikes - what invites it but our regrets? Thus, have no regrets. Then when the lightning shall strike regardless, know that it is not by your cause, nor another's.
Like congealing porridge, time had begun to accumulate into a semi-solid slop, its nutrients diffusing uselessly into inseparable detritus and miscellany.
And then, suddenly, like the worms which grow in the neglected harvest, the unsustainable burden of time had begun to fester, and fell through.
That day, a person was sitting on the ground before the cottage, tearing at coarse clothes and bawling with great force.
"I wish for death! There is nothing in this world!" proclaimed this figure.
Liu Kui was woken up by this ruckus, and opened the door to go outside.
But the person was at a short distance from the door, and when it opened, it struck at the head and caused it to bleed.
The figure fell, knees against the ground, and cried out once more. "See! There truly is only pain in the world."
Puzzle 8: There may be pain in the world. Recently, pain was also discovered outside of the world. Despite the controversy surrounding these discoveries, scholars agree that the upcoming investigations into the nature of pain may unite domains of thought previously thought to be separate. Propose some possible unifications and their hypothetical avenues.
Then, without a word, Liu Kui dragged the person into the cottage, and draped about that hunched figure a spare cloak from the wall.
Ban Songqi at this time was roused from slumber by the intrusion. "Where did this rabble come from?"
Liu Kui replied, "From the street."
But Ban Songqi had seen through this immediately. "No - rather, they instead hail from the scholars of the faraway rivers."
"Though they purport to teach the way of the heavens, they are instead moved by the heavens. And when they shall say that they will alter the course of the waters, while entering their feet to the rapid streams, they will be ripped into the current."
"All the while they scream at these proceedings, and afterward they will be self-assured. They will claim the teachings of nature like a thief in the gallery."
Then Ban Songqi stood from the bed, still wrapped in the bedding, and took an empty flask to Liu Kui.
"Fill this with water."
So Liu Kui wordlessly did.
Then Ban Songqi drank half the water, and returned to bed.
Seeing this, Liu Kui immediately rose, incensed at this apparently callous attitude, and stumbled forward, but tripped on the cloak of the stranger and became tangled in the cloth and unable to see.
The stranger, having secretly kept one eye open throughout all these events, grabbed the flask, and drank the remainder in one gulp.
Puzzle 9: Identify the truth, the flaw, and the hazard in the following: (Sample from the texts of the faraway river school, dated approx. 291 years prior) - Quick is the lightning when it strikes - what invites it but our regrets? Thus, have no regrets. Then when the lightning shall strike regardless, know that it is not by your cause, nor another's.