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Duality in Daoism wasn't really that big a thing until commentaries written much later and later redefinitions like Zhuangzi. Early on it was simply a part of the Daodejing, a contextual background for understanding the actual teachings. Trying to assign philosophical significance to it compared to anything else in the book like the water analogy is more of a later interpretation, again similar to my taijiquan analogy. I won't comment on Marshall's translation, other than I don't really care for it. Depending on how a person learns to read classical Chinese, their view of how a phrase is rendered is often distorted. Also note that duality was not unique to Daoism and likely predates it by a significant margin. It was not a new idea to Laozi or his students, which is why I play down the "significance" aspect. |
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Getting thru my daily life is hard enough without having to worry about the goings ons of our city, region & world. Reading, whether learning something or joining the world of a fiction writer is pleasure. It's getting away from the daily existence we find ourselves in. (whatever that daily existence entails) |
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The only thing I've ever learned from the news, be it paper, TV, radio, etc., is that the sky is falling! I can die from Swine Flu, Avian Flu, SARS, etc., should I venture outside without a mask. If I dare to travel, they insist I must learn about the latest bombings, terrorist attacks, et al, as if my knowing about them will somehow keep me safe. Does the media want me safe, or does it just want me frightened? If they really wanted to do something positive, how about a year-long media blitz, every paper, every news case, every reality show, every day... about drunk driving? More people die from that in just one weekend in one metropolitan city than from all the combined diseases in the news over the last 5 years! I'll get off my soapbox now... think I'll read a good book! Maybe even a bad book! No mater. I'll enjoy it! Stitchawl |
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Are you sure you don't mean she isn't a [i]bad[/b] writer?
The write quality scale is rather long. Plenty of space between the "good writer" and "bad writer" marks. I'd have imagined she places firmly in between those, however close to the "good writer" mark. - Ahi |
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As far as the criticism, well, it isn't so much the basic premise of that it has a happy ending, but rather that it just isn't that great of a story. Note that enjoyable, and good are two different things. I love watching B movies, yet you'll never see me saying that they're great works of art. |
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Impossible, my dear Watson. A book is made of words. A movie is made of images and sounds. How can you by any possible stretch of the imagination say that there is "virtually nothing different" between the two? If there was "virtually nothing different", the movie would be redundent (not the book, since it was there first). Obviously some people don't feel that way, since presumably a number of them read the book AND saw the movie. Or the other way around. Even movie/televised versions of theater plays can't be said to have "virtually nothing different" from the written play. I'm sure you can find many versions of most Shakespeare plays made at different times by different people, and -surprise!- they aren't all the same Making a movie means creating something. Good or bad, 100% original or inspired from another work. It's still a work in its own right. There are even movies made from other movies. You may feel they don't do the original justice, or that they are better. But nobody will ever say that they are "virtually the same". |
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