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he died a long time ago.
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There's the girl.
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That's no girl, you idiot!
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She's a goddess.
Yes, she is.
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No. I mean, literally, a goddess.
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You've never heard of Kwan Ying?
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Kwan Ying? The Goddess of Mercy?
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I must ask your forgiveness, Scholar.
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For luring you to our world
the way that I did.
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Well, that does explain a few things.
Your drinking habits, for instance.
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I never imagined how difficult
it would be...
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to drink and fly at the same time!
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Goddess. You don't know this guy.
He's impossible.
:21:41
Monkey. The title of teacher...
:21:44
is the greatest a soul can attain.
:21:46
Will you really give up so easily?
:21:48
He doesn't even want to learn!
:21:50
Neither did you.
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Yes, but I was brilliant.
:21:56
Will you allow me to explain.
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Excuse us.
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This man lived five hundred years ago,
in the world of humans above.
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His name was Wu Cheng-en.
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He wrote "Journey to the West"
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You remember.
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Come. Let us enter his world.
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Through...
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Author Wu lived in an age of senseless
cruelty and repression.
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The Emperor had declared that
all progress must cease
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that China must return
to the values and traditions of its past.
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Writers were only allowed to retell
the old tales, over and over again.