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After a little bit more conversation Master’s friend toodles off home presumably for his dindins (these are grownass guys, yet they act like a pair of kids at times). Master retires to his study and has much to think about.
Wagahai-cat kindly narrates Master’s soliloquy for us because he has such omnipotent intellect and Master has all but a hollow skull for a brain, he can easily recite Master’s every thought. Master, all tuckered out from too much thinking in circles, goes to bed and ends chapter nine.
Japanese found under the leaves
Meowords
唱道「しょうどう」ー Advocacy
脳漿「のうしょう」ー Spinal fluid; grey matter
琴瑟「きんしつ」ー Qin and Se (Two types of Chinese Zithers); but can also mean a happy marriage
(by extension this can be: 琴瑟相和「きんしつそうわ」ー A harmonious couple; being happily married)