This book is dedicated to Sun Wukong, the Monkey King Who deleted his name from the Register of Life and Death Thus achieving immortality

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“Under ‘Soul No. 1350’ was the name of Sun Wukong, the Heaven-born stone monkey, who was destined to live to the age of 342 and die a good death.

“ ‘I won’t write down any number of years,’ said Sun Wukong.‘I’ll just erase my name and be done with it.’ ”

—From Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng’en

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