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It is paramount in the mastery of the fist that I remain fully aware of the structure of the human anatomy.
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Sparring, basic cardiovascular fitness training, striking at punching bags… The ways of improving one's body are truly numerous. However…
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… one must spend a significant amount of time before a desk, pen in hand, to truly grasp what constitutes the mastery of the fist.
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Have you ever experienced fatigue so extreme that each step feels as though you are wading through a quaggy mire? Yet, in that exhaustion, my mind is cleared like the reflective surface of a freshly minted coin.
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I grow rather joyous on such occasions. To gaze upon the blueprint of a human body in solitude is to train my brain as one does body, to fortify the threads of my mind as one does the threads of musculature.
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I imagine the human anatomy in equivalence to an architecture.
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In the Association library's knowledge repository, those countless bundles of paper, I have found most interesting the subject of architecture.
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Considering that the young child lifted from a terrible fate by the Association found the sections under 'Architecture' and 'Human Anatomy' most interesting as he perused from 'A' row to 'H' row of the Library…
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… it would be no hyperbole to say that these two subjects have much in common.
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Shear wall structure. Trusses design. Flat-slab construction.
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I soon came to understand that, as I took notes on these words too electrifying to even vocalize, each and every one of these techniques was an outcome of an extended meditation on the pursuit of utmost stability.
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However, after a long contemplation of such designs, I have also come to understand that even the most robust of architectures have load-bearing walls that will crumble the entire construction should they be properly damaged.
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I find the study of such vulnerabilities quite intriguing.
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If one were to ask me whyever, then I may answer that such study permits one to demolish and reconstruct defective construction with a newly invented structure closer to perfection, to tear down the architecture with ease once its flaws have been identified and eliminated.
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Such ideation came to me in the wake of my adulthood, as I began undertaking tasks for the Association. It was around that time when I reached the 'H' section of the library.
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I began to muse that perhaps flawed structures are ambling about in the name of 'human anatomy'.
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I had a sudden thought that I wished to correct these flaws. Not only by the Association's orders, but compelled by my nature as a researcher.
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Indeed, the human anatomy, though it may initially appear rather consistent across every individual, transfigurates into different 'structures' as the body grows.
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Certain structures grow to be increasingly unstable in their physical blueprints, yet are reinforced by the cement and steel frame of a powerful mind that allows them to stand steadfast…
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… whereas certain other structures have firm physical balance yet have built themselves an incredibly flawed internal design.
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The more flawed a structure is, the more obvious their vulnerabilities become.
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With my research, I may demolish them with a mighty and precise strike so that they may be rebuilt to a proper shape.
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Thus completed is the mastery of the fist.
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The mastery of an art that, instead of the polymorphous fickleness of the Keys that unnecessarily destroys the outer layer, strikes at the core of the structure.
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Indubitably, that is why I, a structure myself, have selected these fists as my passion.
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World of the Dieci Association Southern Branch Identity Stories
