un: pillar of the heavens

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There's something terrible about this menu.

I just served someone ham and eggs and now they're laughing. For no good reason. When I told him to shut up, he just kept laughing. Yesterday, while serving food in the second-class car, someone ate a pancake and started crying. He had food, what was he complaining about?

And it wasn't even the terrible dishes, like that cheese dish— camembert in aspic. That looks like something to cry over, not pancakes and syrup.

Don't eat the eggs. There's some surprise mash served in the first-class dining cart that I wouldn't serve my dog. And what the hell is brown soup? Frothed wine soup? That just seems like a waste of good wine.

I'll just show you instead. Don't eat anything crossed out. I've taken to making most of my food instead of attempting to eat this. There are no proper meals here, beyond one decent rice dish served for tea. Try that, if you're hungry.

For the other meals, don't eat anything crossed out. It's awful.


[ attached are a couple of pictures of the menus, with scribbles on them: breakfast and dinner ]

Comments

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Then what is there to insult my shizun about?

[downswing]

I wonder.

[inkfire]

Speak plainly.
Or don't. It would be impolite of me to make such demands on you, senior.

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You hold your master in esteem.

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Yes. As a good disciple should

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Duty is often not reality.

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You speak from experience?

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Observation.

Who raised you?

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A whorehouse until I was 14.

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( ..................... )


A bustling cradle.

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Bustling alright.

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Will you accept sympathy?

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It's in the past. Sympathy is unnecessary

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A man is a painting of his past.

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And such a place is hardly worth sympathy.

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More than many.

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It wasn't the worst place I could have lived.

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Most masters do not recruit from pleasure houses.

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He did not recruit me; I was found by his sect leader.
Sisheng Peak allowed disciples to pick their master.

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And if children chose prestige or kindness?

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Their choice.

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Children oft err.

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And?

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They may choose mistakenly.

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Others, maybe. But I did not.