Claire Pao Pao itibaren 4198 Graf Ignatievo, Bulgaristan
the good word... 4th century BCE... comedian, poet, story teller, and trickster.. a book i continually aspire to understand and hold myself to, With a satchel of quirky stories... he single handedly undermined the institution of rational thought in ancient China.. (who knows if that's true.. it just has a ring to it...) Burton Watson... is an excellent translator, a famous scholar... ive read four other translations.. only his manages to begin to capture all the multitudes... (though others are better for teasing out the philosophical implications, at the cost of obliterating the humor, or the poetry...) seminal inspiration for philosophical Taoism, Cha'an Buddhism, and ten thousand other things... the book glows in the dark...