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Podcast: The Cosmic Library
Episode: 4.2 The Hall of the Monkey King: Lawful Chaos
Description: Different belief systems—and just differences in general—collide and merge in Journey to the West, the classic Chinese novel at the center of this season. “In Dungeons & Dragons terminology, you’ve got this lawful good monk and then you have this chaotic good monkey,” says Kaiser Kuo (co-founder of China's first heavy metal band and host of the Sinica Podcast) in this episode. And their quest succeeds: the combination of the monk Tripitaka's lawfulness and the Monkey King's chaos works out.That intertwinement of differences shapes Journey to the West, on multiple levels. It’s about...