to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240°
Sherlock Holmes (sh) uses a microphone (曰) and a dinosaur bone (丨) as pointer to explain (申) the history of the encampment to the audience standing in front of it ((e)n1). He likes to present himself as an expert, but he's a faker: All his explanations come from his textbook (申).
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Marie Curie (xi) just came back from her trip to outer space and is standing in front of the launch pad (射) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She thanks (谢) her sponsors and points towards the sponsors' advertising column (讠), saying that it would have been impossible to go to outer space without their funding.