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Eighth Discovery
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
-Aristotle
I can hold my shapeshifting for more than a minute. A whole face. It took some practise, but I'm finally here. Nascha was impressed, so I'll take that as a sign of it working. Now, I need to work on sustaining a face for as long as possible and actually ( Read more... ) -
Seventh Discovery
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
-Aristotle
Good luck to all of our questers. There is safety in numbers, especially if you meets monsters on your way. ( Read more... ) -
Sixth Discovery
All things are difficult before they are easy.
-Thomas Fuller
I attempted a lot of shape-shifting yesterday. It perhaps wasn't the best idea, considering the amount of extra training we had done. It led to me passing out. I apologize to anyone whom I was supposed to meet; that was an ill-advised action ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday, Sadaharu
Well, Creation Day, I suppose, if I wished to be precise. Thank you for being my friend. I really do appreciate it.
[ooc: His gift is a book about some human psychology and a loud seashell, so Inui can get a slightly better idea of the sea.] -
Fourth Discovery
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
-Henry Ward Beecher
For anyone planning to visit our cabin in the next week, please don't. You'll disturb the skeins and incomplete tapestries and then you will have angered those gifted with the weaving ( Read more... ) -
To an old friend
Have a peaceful and happy birthday. I'm glad I met you.
[ooc: Yanagi's present is a simple, but high quality calligraphy set.] -
Third Discovery
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-T.S Eliot
Creating translations about the Muses on Mount Parnassus makes me wish to take a trip out to Greece, just to see what sorts of surroundings they might have lived in. The chances of those ( Read more... ) -
Second Discovery
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Did you know that there are 50 ways to skin a cat, but 1050 ways for skinning a human?
[ooc: Yanagi is VERY annoyed about the lack of sleep.] -
First Discovery
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-Confucius
Another summer begins. I must say, I'm enjoying the nice weather. It allows for some pleasant reading outdoors, if it is interrupted occasionally by the chaos that is the camp. I heard some unfavourable sounds from the Hermes cabin; I predict trouble as 94.5%, but I'm rather ( Read more... )