2004-05-07

muckefuck: (Default)
2004-05-07 09:07 am

Confucian exegesis

Last night, I helped [livejournal.com profile] monshu decipher some seals. There's a particular vendor on eBay who offers a lot interesting ones at reasonable prices. Unfortunately, his translations are often...idiosyncratic. In fact, if he didn't provide Pinyin transcriptions, we'd often have no chance of deciphering the characters. I think his translation of the following phrase was "The scholar knows the truth".
君子不器
What do them squiggles really mean? )
muckefuck: (Default)
2004-05-07 12:33 pm

Romantic midnight

I desperately want to go take a nap right now, but I don't want to be known to my colleagues as the kind of guy who takes naps in public places like some sort of bum. If only I could break into someone's car...

I can't explain why I didn't sleep better last night. At least I was rewarded with cool dreams. One was set in Your Older Brother's D&D Campaign (e.g. my boon companion was named "Hendry Marsack"--HUZZAH!) and featured a literal flight-to-the-hills as some local conflict spun out of hand.There was a poignant scene that stuck in my memory, but I'm not sure I can do it justice. )