wrote:
>
> >TI:
>
>
> >But no "Journey to the West" in the HQ bibliography list...why?
> >http://www.glorantha.com/support/15.Bibliography.pdf
>
> Any bibliography as broad as this yet limited to two pages is
bound to be
> patchy.
>
> I found the list inspiring and liked the way it took a few chances
> (Charmed? - hardly our demographic) and listed heroic (?) failures
like
> 'What Dreams May Come' and oddball efforts like 'Yellow
Submarine'. It
> included lots that was new to me in an area I thought myself a bit
of a
> completist in. Which is how it should be. :)
>
> I'm sure just about everybody's two-page heroquest bibliography
would be
> extremely different. I was a bit surprised there were no comics -
Sandman,
> Beanworld, Lone Wolf and Son... But once you start on lists like
this, you
> can go on almost forever.
>
> The published list *does* inspire curiosity and wonder, and I for
one
> printed it out and folded it in my wallet next to my library card.
>
> As for the good Wu Cheng En, there are few English translations
available,
> and most of these are partial. Arthur Waley's was the first and
still
> probably the best. For Australians certainly (the Brits as well?)
it was
> the Japanese 'Monkey' television series that popularised the
legend, with
> its dopey translation a core part of the charm. It was a wonderful
part of
> growing up in the seventies and eighties.
>
> So loyal disciples, partake of your silly accents and join with me
in the
> mantra...
>
> "In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heavens sought
order.
> But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
>
> The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons
wheeled and
> passed. Time and the pure essence of Heaven, the moisture of the
Earth, the
> powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock, old
as
> creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was
named "Thought".
>
> Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we
make the
> World". Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it came a
stone monkey.
>
> The nature of Monkey was... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ !!!!!!!!"
irrepressible. Do I win a prize?
Jim.