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"Seventy-two precious arts are kept in a brocade bag, they may be kept being a great treasure. Eighteen turn out the essence of the famous treatises on pugilistic arts. Eighteen other arts describe in greater detail training methods with the use of special tools and training equipment. Wonderful types of attaining the flexibility of the breath-chi, exercises in obtaining hardness and lightness, clenching methods are written with all the blood of monks in magazines which might be kept like a treasure inside the brocade bag. One can seldom meet people that genuinely wish to do exercises with zeal: to turn into a real hero, one must often feel bitter taste of hard labour. " /Secret Shaolin Treatises for the Pugilistic Art/ 9. Their emotional appeal This picture amazingly captures the think layer of clouds on the valley near the south of Lake Como, northern Italy. In the above image, the dense cloud hides almost the valley and instead gives off some artificial lights which make town as an opaque blanket. The village over distance is clearly seen from the blanket.