Chapter 40: The child's playful transformations confuse the Chan Mind; Ape, Horse, Spatula gone, Wood Mother, too, is lost.
In which a child kidnaps Tang Sanzang
Hey everybody, sorry for the delay this time. You know, stuff happens, but don’t worry, this won’t happen again.
“You must take caution and be on your guard, for I fear that some deviate creature all of a sudden will come to attack me again”: Remind me not to come near a mountain when I visit China.
“The little fiends under him also ask us frequently for payola”: An undercover or indirect payment.
“Lord of the Mind's upright, he takes the middle way; / Wood Mother's naughty, he walks a wayward path. / Horse of the Will's silent, nursing want and greed; / Yellow Dame's wordless,feeling his unease. / Guest-Error succeeds but his joys are vain”: Lord of the Mind is clearly Monkey, Wood Mother is Zhu Bajie, Horse of the Will is the horse, but at the moment I don’t know why he is nursing that; Yellow Dame has to be Sha Wujing because he never speaks, and Guest-Error can’t be other than Tang Sanzang because he keeps making mistakes.
“…the Monkey King grabbed the body on his back and hurled it against
some rocks at the side of the road”: Normal reaction when a kid is bothering you.
“…fancy title is Great King Holy Child”: Sounds like something from a Christmas carol.
“But Wood Mother and Mind Monkey have mutual support”: I don’t know why Zhu is called Wood Mother. The only Google entry about it is this one but it doesn’t really makes sense to me.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Chapter 41 will be up the 30th of March.