喜怒無常

喜 = 壴 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: 喜宴, wedding banquet.

Marie Curie is overjoyed to announce her marriage in the space station. She improvised a wedding banquet with nothing but mandarins and notifies everyone by beating a large drum very quickly with two mandarins.

怒 = 奴 + 心 : Nelson Newt (nu) is angrily (怒) shouting at his slave (奴) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The slave thinks how heartless Nelson Newt is. Indeed, a long time ago the slave stole Nelson Newt's heart (心) to use it one day in an escape plan.

无 = 一 + 𠂇 + 乚 : Mnemonic symbol: the philosopher Diogenes, who has nothing and wants nothing.

无 = 一 + 𠂇 + 乚 : Just inside the space station's entrance, Diogenes is annoyed by Willy Walrus, who's playing his flute. Diogenes just wants a peaceful time without being disturbed, so he cuts the flute into pieces with a pair of scissors, and threatens to beat Willy Walrus with a shovel should he annoy Diogenes again.

Mnemonic symbol: 無爲, wu2 wei2, the state of non-doing after having attained complete harmony with the Tao.

Willy Walrus (w) has attained Wu Wei (無) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), while from the outside it may seem like he is napping.

常 = 小 + 冖 + 吊 : Mnemonic symbol: the centennial light, a light bulb which will shine forever and ever.

常 = 小 + 冖 + 吊 : Charlie Chaplin is fighting his way through anglepod's underbrush with a coat hanger. The anglepod has not been visited in a hundred years, and with his coat hanger, Charlie Chaplin has to cut down a lot of daisies. Finally he found what he was looking for: the centennial light, protected from the daisies and the rain by a cooking top.