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“It’s a series of parables, often involving animals that have a non-sequitur quality to them. So it’ll be a story about a bird or a fish that leaves you hanging at the end. You never really know what he’s talking about.” Read more...
Simon Cox, Historian
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Hungry Ghosts
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Analects
Confucius (trans. Edward Slingerland)
