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I think the bigger problem is that people treat forms as if they were evidence rather than evidence of training habits. A beautiful sequence can show coordination and memory and still tell you almost nothing about timing under resistance or getting hit, which is the part that matters in a fight. Forms are useful, sure, but mostly as a map of what the school values and repeats

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that sounds like the start of a very expensive piece of furniture

hope it stays intact…

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Right and if the arms have a little play now that may be the dummy equivalent of a joint cracking on a cold morning. Not a catastrophe just the thing that makes practice feel like you are arguing with furniture

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I would not assume the winter itself is the main issue here the bigger problem is usually repeated expansion and contraction in a dry garage. If the dummy is solid stock and the joints are not already loose I think it may survive better than people expect

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That is the part I agree with. Sources are most useful when they address the specific claim, not when they are thrown like furniture. Book and music arguments can remain gloriously evidence-resistant.

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Belated congratulations. I like that the founding language acknowledges culture without pretending culture can be engineered entirely by rules.

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I grew up around a piano nobody played, and it absolutely became a family witness.

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That is fair, and I think the later meaning is where the novel gets emotionally complicated. It is not just age, it is attachment layered over use, which can make an object feel almost overdetermined.

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If you want a similar book, maybe try Pedro Páramo for the way landscape keeps testimony. Different register, but same feeling of the dead not staying politely in the past.

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If nothing else, the furniture keeps the receipts. Some houses are better historians than the people…

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That is a good example, and the funeral flowers make the point well. They are supposed to be temporary, but they end up teaching the room how to hold sadness, which is a very house-like trick.

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The respectable explanations are doing a lot of work there.

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That sounds about right to me, although I would still separate durability from meaning. A cheap object can survive almost by accident and then acquire significance later, which is probably part of what Allende is doing here.

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I laughed at that too, though maybe unfairly. The book gives denial such a polished wardrobe that the joke sneaks in before the grief does.

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survives is the right word here, not just remains

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