Admittedly, Igor knew, that meant never ask BIG questions. Never Make Personal Remarks: no Igor would dream of saying anything like ‘I thould have thomething done about that laugh, if I wath you.’Īnd never, ever Ask Questions. Never Complain: an Igor would never say ‘But that’th a thouthand mileth away!’ Never Contradict: it was no part of an Igor’s job to say things like ‘No, thur, that’th an artery.’ The marthter was always right. Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: ‘A fish!’ ‘Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?’ In the Second Scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly: ‘In a few minutes we’ll find a nice place to stop and you can cut his head off. ‘You’ll need the sword to learn about yetis,’ said Lu-Tze. Are you going to try to teach me about this yeti, then, and why you made me bring a sword?’ ‘You might not be learning them, of course.’ ‘I’m teaching you things all the time,’ said Lu-Tze. ‘Well, I just … I thought … well, I just thought you’d be teaching me more, that’s all.’ ‘But I expect I would have found some way to use their stupidity against them,’ said Lu-Tze. ‘And what would you have done if I hadn’t been here, pray?’ A good master gives the pupil an opportunity to demonstrate his skills.’ I had every confidence in you, of course. ‘So that you didn’t have their full attention. ‘I was making sure I had their full attention,’ said Lu-Tze smoothly. ‘You let me do all the work back there! You weren’t going to do anything!’ ‘Well, as a matter of fact, yes, there is, actually,’ said Lobsang. ‘Something you want to say, is there?’ he said. Lu-Tze got the feeling that he was taking part in a dialogue of one. Not since that rumour about their feet got around.’ Mind you, they don’t come that close to settlements any more. A lot of people back in the valley have never even seen one. ‘I’d think myself lucky if I was a boy your age actually being carried by an actual yeti. Silence, a kind of sullen, deliberate silence, reigned. For is it not written, “We live and learn”?’ ‘I spent some time with the yetis,’ said Lu-Tze. ‘Their wool is spun out of rock in some way, but it’s pretty comfy.’ The yeti picked them up gently and firmly, cradled them in the crook of each arm, and strode away through the snow and trees.
‘Remember Rule One! Oh, and pick up one of those swords.
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