Invoking ancestral help

[ljlee]

I am not the first of my line to write about my heroine's times. The celebrated thirteenth-century writer Lee Gyubo (李奎報, 1168~1241) wrote the Lay of the King in the Eastern Light (東明王篇), an epic poem about the first king of Goguryeoh a.k.a. my heroine's second husband. Lee, also known as Master White Cloud (白雲居士) and Lord of Gentle Prose (文順公), is

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[lb_lee]

Lord of Gentle Prose! What an awesome title, and what a cool thing to have appended to your family's name!

I'm sure he appreciated the Coke.

--Rogan/Sneak/Miranda

[ljlee]

Ironically his prose wasn't considered gentle in his time at all--he was part of a big literary debate about whether it's better to emulate the Chinese classics or insert the author's own individuality and sensibility, and he was a leading individualist. History since validated his position. Since he was so open to new things I'm sure he loved the Coke, too. :D

[loopy777]

The caffeine will probably do him a little good. XD

Pretty cool to have someone whose writings appear in popular textbooks as an ancestor.

[ljlee]

The dead do wake, lol. He's a cool guy and I'm proud of him, though I kind of facepalmed when I realized the most famous people in my clan are academics and writers--the very two career tracks I'm pursuing.

[loopy777]

Hey, at least you won't have to explain your job to your ancestors' ghosts. I'll have to start by getting coal miners, carpenters, and ditch diggers to understand what a computer is. XD

[ljlee]

That is a conundrum, lol. Tell them you operate adding machines, perhaps?