I'm sending this to both the Ranma and fanfic mailing lists.  The subject came
up, in reference to my fanfic Tendou 2/3, of whether the book about the
Cat-Fist says that throwing someone into a pit of cats doesn't work.

The only "translation" I could dig up was this old article by Hitoshi Doi
where he answers some questions.  Anyone know if this is really right or
not?

# 31. What's with the book on pg 34?  Why is Ramna's father pointing to
# that passage?
# 
#         The book is a training book on the "cat-style" method of
#         fighting.  The book says that throwing the student down among
#         a bunch of starving cats will [next page] have no effect so
#         don't do it.  But, Ranma's father did not turn the page!

(Incidentally, if you reply to this, please edit your header.  The message
probably should not go to _both_ the fanfic _and_ Ranma mailing lists.)