Thanks for the insight!

Cool, appreciate the context. And this applies both to the repetition between chapters and within a particular chapter?

I just finished The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West, Wu Cheng’en, Anthony C. Yu (Translator), after attempting to read the primary work. Being exposed to western mythologies, I was very interested in exploring other cultural touchstones. I almost dropped it due to the enormity of the novel, but decided to switch to the abridged version. I’m glad I didz even if my heart didn’t like the concept of an abridgment.

Overall, it was interesting, and I’m glad I read it but there must be some context regarding all the repetition within a single chapter that I’m missing. I can’t count how many times a character explains, word for word, what has just happened to another character. I theorize two reasons. Either that the repetition is for emphasis(though this seemed inconsistent), or in Chinese there is symmetry in the placement on the page.

As a palette cleanser I just sped through The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook Matt Dinniman which was fun and easy.

I’m very interested to see what you think once you finish Demon in White. I interpreted that the between context was intentionally omitted to show time has passed, but I hear what you’re saying.

Bandwidth throttling knows what you’ve done.

(Super rad)

This is sick. It makes mobile updates to OSM nice and easy. Thanks for sharing!