random quote

[truepenny]

So I'm poking around on bartleby.com looking for inspiration towards a title for this thing I'm working on that's maybe a novel, and I found this Chinese proverb:

     One dragon may breed nine different offspring.

No idea what, if anything, it means, but I like it.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying is that dragons are like rosebushes.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Could be. I'm sure there's a story in that idea somewhere. Or a really good illustration.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Rosebushes, apples and dragons...

Hmmm.

There *is* a story there.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link to Bartleby.com. Fascinating site.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Very welcome!

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, that I like.

The Nine Children of the Dragon, each utterly unlike all the others, hidden among the populace at random. That I could do something with.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

I was hoping if I posted it, it would spark something for somebody.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that's an actual way in to the idea I've been half-heartedly kicking about for ages that came up in a discussion (http://www.livejournal.com/users/stakebait/171494.html) on stakebait's journal jsut the other day ?

Not now. Am in the middle of too many things already.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

It means that an action can have all sorts of unexpected outcomes, not just the one you expect, surely?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Given that a dragon is an action, sure.

It would be interesting to write/read something about dragons that were verbs instead of nouns.