Gems of Chinese Literature
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When they began, the old gentleman filled himself another bumper ; and sitting down, quietly stroked his beard and sipped his wine by turns, until at length he lapsed into a semi-inebriate state of placid enjoyment, varied by intervals of absolute unconsciousness or of partial return to mental lucidity. His ears were beyond the reach of thunder ; he could not have seen a moun- tain. Heat and cold existed for him no more. He knew not even the workings of his own mind. To him, the affairs of this... world appeared but as so much duck- weed on a river ; while the, two philanthropists at his side looked like two wasps trying to convert a caterpillar (into a wasp, as the Chinese believe is done).
T'AO YUAN-MING. 105 T'AO YUAN-MING.
365—427 A.D.
[Chiefly remarkable for having thrown up a good official appoint- ment, because as he said his salary did not repay him for being obliged to "crook the pregnant hinges of the knee." In private life, he amused himself with authorship and rearing chrysanthe- mums.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
When they began, the old gentleman filled himself another bumper ; and sitting down, quietly stroked his beard and sipped his wine by turns, until at length he lapsed into a semi-inebriate state of placid enjoyment, varied by intervals of absolute unconsciousness or of partial return to mental lucidity. His ears were beyond the reach of thunder ; he could not have seen a moun- tain. Heat and cold existed for him no more. He knew not even the workings of his own mind. To him, the affairs of this... world appeared but as so much duck- weed on a river ; while the, two philanthropists at his side looked like two wasps trying to convert a caterpillar (into a wasp, as the Chinese believe is done).
T'AO YUAN-MING. 105 T'AO YUAN-MING.
365—427 A.D.
[Chiefly remarkable for having thrown up a good official appoint- ment, because as he said his salary did not repay him for being obliged to "crook the pregnant hinges of the knee." In private life, he amused himself with authorship and rearing chrysanthe- mums.
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