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Jobb Posted 21 years ago
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Butterfly

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Regarding Zhuangzi's butterfly, it seems so easy to crack his puzzle. Many people had seen that he was born, growing up and living as a crazy man, so it was him who dreamed of that he became the butterfly, and the reverse was untrue. I'm sorry I've broken up his poetic paradox.
  

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OK, but perhaps you need to indicate what meaning you are after: Zhuangzi's puzzle was crazy, so he became the butterfly. I'm poetic.

  • OK, but perhaps you need to indicate what meaning you are after: Zhuangzi's puzzle was crazy, so he became the butterfly.
  • I'm poetic.
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OK, but perhaps you need to indicate what meaning you are after:

Zhuangzi's puzzle was crazy, so he became the butterfly. I'm poetic.
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Perhaps:

'Regarding Zhuangzi's butterfly, it seems so easy to crack his puzzle. As everyone knows, he was born mad, lived like a madman, and died mad. So it was clearly Zhuangzi who dreamed he became a butterfly, and the reverse was untrue. I'm sorry if I've destroyed his poetic paradox.'

There is a phrase in English: 'to break a butterfly upon a wheel'. It has a similar meani
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I like your writing, MM. But could it be possible that a man was born mad?
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Ah! If you ask that question, I must have misinterpreted your meaning. I thought you meant he had always been mad.

Did you mean simply that many people had seen him grow up? and then act crazily?

MrP
PS: 'Could it be possible that a man was born mad?' What an interesting question. Are there mad embryos, I wonder? Or merely embryos with the potential for madness?

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