“Water, water everywhere…” and not a drop to drink in Shanghai

a drop of sunshine: white light

as a component: “白字旁”

exhausted from measuring ice over and over because it is melting

alternatively: 尸 + \ + 冫corpse +slash + ice, frozen body, autopsy determined cause of death was exhaustion

Seven in many cultures symbolizes wholeness or everything: seven days of the week, seven notes in the scale. Think of a knife diving everything into seven parts.

sign in the woods prohibits the building of altars

“What in the world is going on here?” (when you see your persona with a needle).

“Yuan and the Ape”  Did you know that Edgar Allen Poe wrote the first modern detective story, not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? It is called “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Well, in our story, “Murder in Jianhe Lu” a man named Yuan is gagged with a scarf and buried alive. The detective is clued in to the true murderer, an ape, when witnesses all think they overheard a different language being spoken in Yuan’s backyard, and animal hair is found on the body. Moral: If neighbors are going to snoop, they should be more thorough and look, not just listen. (Fables)

grain and children have seasons

grain produces "children" (seeds) in season

This carcass was made incomplete by a machine gun.

"In this class campers will learn to use bamboo chopsticks fast, like Mr. Miyagi." (Camp Bamboo)

a picture of the mouth of a valley

ticket in a windstorm will flutter

use hand to catch someone by their lower leg

Undress, reveal body parts, bring out the devil…

shallow prayer: grant me easy money

when a memory "deceases" in your heart, you have forgotten it

you go down with the team (plunge into the soil) OR The bride pictures her team plunging into a ditch which she is covering with soil.

It is my request, taskmaster, that you rescue my daughter from herself. (Wedding Planner)