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On a totally unrelated note, guess who finally finished the Librivox version of Red Chamber's Book 1 (Ch. 1-16 pt 1) this week? Nevermind taking a month break between the first 4 hours (out of 11+) and taking in 3-4 sections for weeks at a time (and dreading the other 7 chapters to officially finish Book 1), I only now started putting together the family tree cause there are names/titles out the wazoo that the Limbus Daiyu-Baoyu theory does not make things anymore clearer for now (adding to the Wang, Xue, and Shi family significance too)…

And now if I figure out that the Limbus Jia family is connected to the Shi Association (since book Gran Jia married into the main family as Dowager Lady Shi) I’m gonna bang my head against a wall to get the sludge of detail manifestos, roundabout convos, and so many poems/limericks out of my brain.

#limbus company #limbus company canto 8 #limbus company spoilers (?)#limbus company hong Lu #dream of the red chamber #hong lou meng #librivox #audiobooks #long tags #To be fair it also depends on the reader helping me understand the ch. or double-checking gutenburg #but I learned a lot more about the story than the wiki/wikipedia could ever explain (not checking sparknotes yet)#like Baoyu going through the story in his early teens (12-13ish) but also having wine per older culture #that Baoyu is a angry bratty drunk #and to the Limbus fans that think Hong Lu's gonna distort in the canto should skim ch. 5 for some wonderful foreshadowing :)#And who knew that the Que Keqing funeral arc (ch 13-15) is the moment Baoyu finally touches grass and meets the common folk?#and the moment the dominos start falling is when the main jade kid go to school...No I'm serious #so yes there are *a lot* of interesting points that might be adapted/changed but who knows?#If Hong Lu knew about his family's downfall before he joined the Sinners is up to debate for now

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