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Yes, but why was the same kind of situation featured in at least two different Chinese dramas?

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.--Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis", 1776

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Surely it was just something martial arts masters did to demonstrate how hard they were?

(They used powdered ink in China back then, did they not?)

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Yes, but why was the same kind of situation featured in at least two different Chinese dramas?

 

I would assume it was used for dramatic effect.

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Typically ink came (and still comes) in the form of "inksticks", dry bars molded in elaborate patterns. But you'd need water and an inkstone to make liquid ink. And then you'd need a brush and a level writing surface of some kind.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.--Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis", 1776

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As we all know, there are conventions in Hollywood movies, like funerals always being accompanied by rain. This could be one of those, or it could be a much older traditional feature of Chinese literature, rendered in dramatic form. That's all I was asking.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.--Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis", 1776

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I've tried that, but mine is always green. Does that mean my mother was right? Could I really be from mars?

 

S

 

I'm sorry, stevo, but I'm pretty sure that would make you a Romulan, from either Romulus or Remus....

 

Bad news, eh?

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I've tried that, but mine is always green. Does that mean my mother was right? Could I really be from mars?

 

S

 

I'm sorry, stevo, but I'm pretty sure that would make you a Romulan, from either Romulus or Remus....

 

Bad news, eh?

 

Or Vulcan.

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thanks for the review

Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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Here are my thoughts in order:

 

1. I have to admit it crossed my mind once before.. maybe the last time I got cut too but I didn't get to try it out unfortunately.

 

 

This has never occurred to me.

 

Hmm.... Maybe next month....

:hmm1: :hmm1: :hmm1: :yikes: :embarrassed_smile:

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PS: I wonder what is really done with expired blood. Is it useful for anything? Seems a shame to "flush" it. AMH

 

AFAIK blood is never used as plain blood. They always separate it to different parts and patients get only those parts they really need. I guess different parts of blood expire in different way.

 

 

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[snip] own blood. Is this an ancient cultural thing for Chinese people?

 

yes, writing in blood is an ancient cultural thing, e.g., for grievances.

 

regards,

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Here are my thoughts in order:

 

1. I have to admit it crossed my mind once before.. maybe the last time I got cut too but I didn't get to try it out unfortunately.

 

 

This has never occurred to me.

 

Hmm.... Maybe next month....

:hmm1: :hmm1: :hmm1: :yikes: :embarrassed_smile:

 

Ditto...O M Freakin G! :headsmack:

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Just add some EDTA or Heparin which are readily available in blood drawing tubes to prevent clotting, and you are good to go.

With the new FPN rules, now I REALLY don't know what to put in my signature.

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Just add some EDTA or Heparin which are readily available in blood drawing tubes to prevent clotting, and you are good to go.

I just caught this thread.

 

/begin weird biological comment

 

Leeches are being used again for medical purposes, particularly for reducing bruises.

 

Get a handful of sterile leeches from your favourite biological supply house, or not so sterile ones from your favourite swamp.

 

Use one to suck a couple of mls of fresh blood in the morning, pop it in a little bottle, and you have a day's writing supply of fresh blood.

The leech adds its own anti-coagulant (similar to heparin, IIRC), and the blood will stay good until the leech starts to digest it.

 

/end weird biological comment

 

 

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Interesting experiment but I think I'll pass on it. Ink is more economical anyway....blood doesn't travel or store well and can be in limited supply at least that's what the blood bank said last time I donated some.

 

Once it has expired at the blood bank I presume it would still be OK for writing. There are all sorts of fantasy literature in which "spells" written in blood are an important plot feature.

 

Gruesome thought :angry:

 

Andy

 

PS: I wonder what is really done with expired blood. Is it useful for anything? Seems a shame to "flush" it. AMH

 

..........

 

I was curious, so I looked it up:

Per the NY Blood center, donated blood expires after 42 days, but very little of it ever expires (they use it too fast/not enough supply to meet the demand)--

 

http://www.nybloodcenter.org/press/factshe...&page_id=89

 

 

 

Much Love--Virginia

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Interesting. :rolleyes:

 

I'm from Korea, and I've seen many times, from historical TV series, that a general or a nobleman writing with their blood, to show their determination, loyalty, etc. to their lord. Well, they could wrote a *very* long letter, filled with big letters! (That is, Chinese characters; before the invention of our own alphabet we used Chinese characters. Even after the invention, the nobels persisted on using Chinese. It's like Latin in Western clutures.)

 

When I was young, I found a story that went : "He bit his third finger and wrote with the blood....". I was really curious to know how hard I should bite my finger to produce enough blood to make a sentence, if not a letter. (It WOULD hurt! How can one bite his own finger that hard? )

 

And when I was in middle school, whenever a boy had a nosebleed - girls didn't do such a thing - he immediately started to write something with the blood... Some phony-desperated words, like a war-beaten general in history, I thought. :)

 

Apparently, TV does have deep impact on children...

Because lies sound so nice

and like soil to seed

it goes to casting my fears aside...

- BT, 'Satellite'

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ebluegrass Near Mint

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QUOTE (cww3823 @ Oct 1 2008, 11:26 AM) Can Anyone out there tell me which fountain pen ink looks the most like blood?? I use a Pelikan Souveran pen.

 

Chad

 

I think Noodlers antietam for the dried look, Nikita is good as well

 

read this "what's your favorite red ink" https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=74821&st=0&start=0

 

Two other good choices would be Diamine Oxblood, or Red Dragon.

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So you cut yourself and your first though was, "hey let me soak this up with a dirty pen nib?"

 

Surely weird but definitely interesting

 

MrR

 

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Think this rates for the "what made you laugh today?" thread in Chatter....? :rolleyes:

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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