Tag: an elephant sitting still
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friday, june 17, 2022
Hu Bo’s An Elephant Sitting Still. The conflict between value-less use and valuable uselessness, a dangerous contradiction tossed into Chinese history. Zhuangzi’s parable of the tree returns: A tree which enjoys being useless. This tree has grown vast, its branches “too twisted and gnarled to be used for beams or pillars,” and its trunk “too…
out with lanterns (looking for myself) 