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Oct 11, 2006 19:48

Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, "I have a big tree named ailanthus. Its trunk is too gnarled and bumpy to apply a measuring line to, its branches too bent and twisty to match up to a compass or square. You could stand it by the road and no carpenter would look at it twice. Your words, too, are big and useless, and so everyone alike spurns them ( Read more... )

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sbyrne October 12 2006, 21:56:51 UTC
Hunh? So useless is good?

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sbyrne October 12 2006, 22:01:29 UTC
Oh wait. I get it now. Chuang Tzu's big useless words put people into a free and easy sleep.

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sbyrne October 12 2006, 22:01:40 UTC
:)

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ashwolf October 12 2006, 23:43:20 UTC
Clearly someone who doesn't hang out on the field of Broad-and-Boundless. You're more about the Doubting Castle of Giant Despair.

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