Status Updates From Nam Hoa Kinh

life-changing footnote on page 143 (it’s the one commenting on the parable about whether it’s possible for a person to understand the happiness of fish, and more generally if one’s own subjectivity/perspective makes it possible to understand other people’s perspectives)

the passages dragging Confucius and denigrating him in comparison to Lao Dan are very funny, as is chapter 10 (if this were published as a contemporary essay, the title would probably be ‘Against Sages’ or ‘Against the Pursuit of Wisdom’)