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The description of weapons technique is also strongly reminiscent of the way Chinese performers handle their wooden weapons in stage fighting, whirling and spinning them. Interestingly there seems to be no equivalent of the somersaulting
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“Es ist nicht unsere Aufgabe, einander näherzukommen, sowenig wie Sonne und Mond zueinander kommen oder Meer und Land. Wir zwei, lieber Freund, sind Sonne und Mond, sind Meer und Land. Unser Ziel ist nicht, ineinander überzugehen, sondern einander zu erkennen und einer im andern das sehen und ehren zu lernen, was er ist: des anderen Gegenstück und Ergänzung.”
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― Legend
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