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Week Name/Date/Time: The Missing, Part 2 / October 2-6, 2006
Location: Divinations Classroom
Open to: Students (On the opposite note, anyone stumbling into her class is bound to be embarrassed if they are not enrolled.)
Currently Involving: Professor Wu, students
( Divinations )
Location: Divinations Classroom
Open to: Students (On the opposite note, anyone stumbling into her class is bound to be embarrassed if they are not enrolled.)
Currently Involving: Professor Wu, students
( Divinations )
She drew the trigram on the board and followed by placing it on her pictorial diagram. "It is composed of two Yin lines and one Yang line, the Yang line being in the middle of the two Yin lines. Remember Yin is dark and Yang is light, so in a way, it looks like a river with two riverbeds at its sides."
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She kept her eyes trained on her parchment roll, carefully studying last week's notes and adding a few details here and there before continuing to add the new trigram to her list. She grinned, simply delighted with the concepts being presented, as she drew the sixth trigram and added it into her nature sketch from last week.
Those ancient peoples really did have a lovely way of connecting everything. She reviewed the trigrams covered so far in her mind. Earth, Water, Air, Fire... Ground, Heaven... she mouthed several of the words as she thought of them, but quickly snapped back to attention when Professor Wu continued the lecture, leaving the thoughts unfinished.
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Easily distracted, though, his ears perked up at Professor Wu's riverbed analogy. Removing his pencil from behind his ear, he began to sketch a river winding down to the edge of his parchment, and drew two little lads on either side of it; one wearing a hat, one smoking a pipe. The fellow with the hat was yelling "HELP!" He was being pursued by a dragon, which Sean sketched on the other side of the parchment, overlapping with his notes from last week.
Sean snickered, and then glanced over at Deirdre, who he was sitting next to, to see if she, too, had drawn a river and two little fellows and a dragon. Strangely, she had not. She was actually mouthing stuff to herself. Hrrrm. Sean nudged her, gesturing with a proud smile to the masterpiece on his parchment.
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"This trigram is called 'Bound' and represents 'Mountain' in nature. If you look at the horizontal trigram, it appears to make sense. Imagine the two broken Yin lines as the mountains, which are usually depicted in dark tones -like brown, correct?- and the Yang line is the brighter sky above." She went ahead and added it to her picture on the opposite side of the Open/Swamp and Shake/Thunder.
"Does anyone have any questions about this trigram?" she asked.
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But! Maybe it was a better thing to do when they weren't in the middle of class, which he suddenly realised when he tuned into what Professor Wu was saying. Oops. Sean tried to look as studious as possible. But he did feel sorta bad. What if he got Deirdre into trouble? That would be no good, he would feel awful and knowing her, she wouldn't even have the heart to be annoyed at him for it, she was too nice.
So, in case she did get in trouble, Sean answered Professor Wu's answer quickly, as a distraction. "YES," he yelped, shooting his hand in the air. Once he had finished, he was sort of at a loss of what to do next, since he didn't really have a question, he didn't even understand enough to even think about having a question. "Uh..." he stalled, glancing down at his notes, "um... yeh. Uh... what--what kind o' mountains?"
Sean winced. That was not... the cleverest of distractions.
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She blinked at his question though. What kind of mountains? "What kind of mountains?" she echoed, with a raised eyebrow. "I suppose if we're going with the Yin, which is dark, I'd imagine them to be soil-rich brown perhaps with foliage? Usually, we don't associate snow caps or white mountains in our drawings, do we?"
Since no one asked any questions about the trigram specifically, she continued. "The eighth and last trigram is one I might have mentioned in the beginning. It is composed of three Yin lines, and is called 'Field'. It represents the 'Earth'." She pointed to it in her diagram.
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