Daniel Sherwood-Clarke

This post explains the idiom. to focus completely (lit: one - heart - one - intent) Kitchen. Giles was sweating. Giles was hungry. Giles was (and I write this in complete confidence to you, dearest reader) a terrible cook. He roasted carrots in such a way that they resembled the sort of small stick that your terrier would find on the ground on your dog walk and - happily for him, grotesquely for you - leave on your porch. Adam was a terrible cook because he was, whilst cooking, attempting his...

20/02/26 胸有成竹 (xiōng yŏu chéng zhú) have a well thought-out plan (lit: chest - has - become - bamboo) Nothing of what follows is written by Artificial Intelligence. Light penetrated the windows of Wentong’s bedroom, waking him sharply. He likely would have set an alarm instead, but alas it was the alarm-clock-less 11th Century. Where Wentong lacked in the ability to invent alarmclocks, he possessed unreasonably good skills in the field of drawing bamboo. The quality of his bamboo depictions...

16/02/26 对牛弹琴 (duì níu tán qín) lit: to play music to a cow Chewing on sublime, crunchy grass in a field, a cow is accosted by a musician bearing an instrument. Unperturbed, the cow goes on chewing. The musician begins playing and, to his astonishment, the cow does not show the appreciation that the musician believes is due. The dejected musician blames not his music, but the fact that the cow cannot possibly conceive of how superb his music truly is. The musician retreats to write down his...