I knew I'd forget something. Thanks for the reminder!

There are no run-on sentences in that excerpt.

I wrote a chapter summary of it here: wuxiawanderings.substack.com/p/heavenly-w...
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My mom loves Penman. I got her Here Be Dragons and some others including this one years ago, and she's since read all her work. Do you know of other authors who are as good as Penman?

Hath - Usurpation
hathnj.bandcamp.com/track/usurpa...

Yeah and there's more great metal to listen to now than ever!
My current listen: rippedtoshredsdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/album/sanshi

It was popular for a bit in metal recently. For example, Rivers of Nihil's Where Owls Know My Name

For me it's gone: Stack on top of shelves. Then stack on floor. Then put in packing boxes. Now I'm in the stack packing boxes on floor phase...

I used to trawl several here in Taiwan. Found so much great stuff (even, weirdly, a first edition of Faulkner's The Mansion). But in recent years they've almost all closed down, moved to online selling sites. Just not the same :\

• Family massacred ✔
• Meets old master (Jade Fan Scholar) ✔
• Taken to mountain to train ✔
• Learns martial arts ✔
• Discovers special fruit that increases internal strength ✔
• Discovers martial arts manual in cave ✔
• Leaves mountain to roam jianghu ✔
• Meets girl at restaurant/inn/on the road ✔