The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #15

May 23, 2013

Hexagram 15: Ch’ien—Modesty

The commentary
is different under the
light. The meaning is

different in the
mountains of Providence. An
authentic man is

a modest man, lost
in British Columbia.
Take from the fat to

pad the lean ghosts of
integrity. The evil
King is killed by the

moral character
of the State. The good King is
killed by the moral

character of the
modest gentleman. Levy
appeals to invade

the adverse Centre.
Cultivate a contrary
geniality.

An introduction
to humanity is the
division of the

people. Be involved—
an available teacher
also serves neighbors.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #14

May 22, 2013

Hexagram 14: Ta Yu—Possession in Great Measure

Much fire under a
big civilization. Dry
fire, vigorous, great.

The soft days are rows
of fire in the sky, taking
exhausted lives. The

promotion of vice
is the promotion of good
governance. They blame

hard times—there is no
blame, no damage, no harm. Do
not lose the plot. Hang

the emperor in
public. Hang the villains in
public. Cart the gang

to Taiwan. Contain
the damage; letters to the
common folk are like

letters to heaven.
Distinguish between God and
adversity. God

bless the common folk,
easy and free. God bless the
public without God.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

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Schopenhauer

May 14, 2013

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Every suicide
of a theologian is
a resurrection

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Patriotism is
the wax dog of cowardice
barking at your heart

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A man is himself
only so long as he’s not
intelligible

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The monogamous
relationship will never
assuage solitude

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After your death you
will be what you were before
music existed

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A man’s brain is an
idiot text, parasite
of his intellect

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Perversity is
a fascination with the
inexplicable

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #13

April 26, 2013

Hexagram 13: T’ung Jên—Fellowship with Men

Dry colleagues one day
under fire: members in the
wild, involved. The world

of ambition, the
syndrome of ambition meets
the flexible door

of ambition, and
the differentiation
of classes is a

stingy road of blame
ascending the city wall
like a three-year-old

Chiang Kai-shek, like a
gentleman who is also
the trapped enemy.

Wail, attack, depress,
direct against going. The
mutual restraint

of masters is a
suburb of no regret. Laugh,
generally, first.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

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Samuel Beckett

April 4, 2013

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Radishes are all
we have. We have words, but they’re
unnecessary.

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Obliterate bliss.
Pulverize delirium.
Weep for butterflies.

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There’s no cure for a
God who is no longer young,
reduced to dying

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Reason is tripe. Love
is tripe. Death is tripe. But they’re
not all the same tripe.

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Regret nothing but
hideous calculations
and the shine of boots

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Time is a vulgar
sonata, idle discourse
for the hunted deaf

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The sun looked upon
nothingness; silent gleam of
the world’s spangled bones

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #12

March 15, 2013

Hexagram 12: P’i—Standstill [Stagnation]

The twelfth day is a
small bandit. Do not pay! Not
to pay is heaven.

The negative man
has no sense of all things on
Earth, the yin and yang

of bad people, a
soft German gentleman, the
arc of the humane

on Mao’s road, pulling
yin in the shame of chaos.
Tipping in June is

inappropriate,
a domain away from blame,
a happiness place.

Be mulberry free,
surviving death to pour long
buds, happy after.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #11

March 8, 2013

Hexagram 11: T’ai—Peace

Thai dry world, small to
large; all things pass in the world:
records, genital

mutilation, health,
patrons, gentlemen, villains
—the small extinction

of humanity.
Thai heaven; the Tao of Earth
supports a fiscal

deficit around
the desirability
of heaven. People

after a CD,
pulling with its yin—log out!
Famine, friends die, still

in line, bank shortage,
ever bright, no cease, no blame,
unshakable like

rich British neighbors.
Happiness is in rows, not
therapists or a

wish sister. The mean
city will kill—this is not
untrue Thai info.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

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Susan Sontag

March 8, 2013

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Boredom is the dull
reverse side of every Right-
wing paranoid lie

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The best thing about
religion is heresy
in a baroque church

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Surrealism is
sadomasochism without
the pornography

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Marx is sexier
than bourgeois social life; he’s
an erotic dream

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Cogito, ergo
something like communism is
human salvation

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American love
is a philistine excess
of sensory dread

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Contemporary
art is all-out war—culture’s
lunatic death mask

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Socrates (via Plato et al.)

February 23, 2013

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Luxury is the
natural contentment with
artificial things

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I am in friendly
harmony with evil: My
mother is for sale

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There is only one
good, but it is not in the
field of my knowledge

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Having the fewest
wants, I am nearest to the
poverty of God

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Old age is wretched;
I’ve had as much as a man
can bear and then some

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Beauty infects the
soul with the desire for gold
and wise ignorance

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Justice and virtue
are false words; follow not where
they aspire to lead

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Jack London

February 8, 2013

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The proper function
of God is to prolong our
suffering. That’s it.

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Every atom of
me is a traitor to my
class and my mother

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I’m hungry for the
magnificent glow of your
loins to spill wet eggs

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Memories are the
ashes of ecstasy, the
dust of forgiveness

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Nature violates
my sanity; it eats at
my inspiration

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Moonlight is a sheet
of flame that will burst the world
like a meteor

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Cash is the bone and
fame is the dog; go after
that dog with a club

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The lavish hand of
charity is limitless . . .
Father the unborn!

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Spinoza

January 21, 2013

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He alone is free
who lives with the confusion
of natural sin

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True virtue is life
under the direction of
the divine absurd

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Whatsoe’er is, is
in music. Without music
there is only God

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As you go to war,
be abject, indignant and
love deformity

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Salvation is the
greatest pride, far beyond man’s
self-complacency

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We feel and know that
happiness is a nuisance;
we strive not to laugh

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By common consent,
a humble ignorance is
our greatest desire

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #10

January 20, 2013

Hexagram 10: Lu—Treading [Conduct]

The estate of shoes:
The tenth dry shoe; top against
bottom shoe; Chloris

shoes, Heinz shoes; using
shoes, not using shoes; soft shoes;
Chiang Kai-shek shoes, bright,

like an emperor
without effect; Jersey shoes;
world shoes; gentleman

shoes based on syndrome
shoes; plain shoes, no blame from the
population, a

quiet man alone,
not chaos; lame shoes, not fierce
enough; log shoes, not

a ferocious row;
inappropriate shoes twist
in legitimate

study of the great
celebration. Exit the
new moon under fire:

ethinyl day shoes—
differentiation from
the population.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

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Henry David Thoreau

January 9, 2013

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A man is rich in
proportion to the number
of things he regrets

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It is unwise to
keep one’s feet on a level
with eternity

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A government that
imprisons unjustly is
every government

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I stand in awe of
the sparrow, who builds temples
in the air of time

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The remedy for
love is wisdom, for which there
is no remedy

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Give me the water
of infinite truth. And if
you can’t, I’ll drink faith

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Public opinion
is the cheapest pleasure found
in a vacuum

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Take my pity and
give me money—I am the
sage of poverty

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The mass of men lead
anxious lives, lost in the hard
fruit of the moment

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You get more nurture
from a trout than you do from
this society

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Go confidently
in the direction of your
fate! And take a dog

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Beware of all things
whose success requires God, guns
and morality

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Callimachus

December 24, 2012

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The Muses are ten,
the Graces are four, but my
one tomb I adore

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The underworld is
a lie, the resurrection
a great evil sleep

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How strange is the lot
of great books! Without deeper
reflection, they die

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I drink from every
well, though I loathe Venus more
than Pluto himself

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Nightingales claw at
the world, their bitter tears the
perfumed common dust

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The laughter of life
is brief; it shines with wine but
Death is a fair thief

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I wept for the wit
of holy poetry . . . the
sun ran with darkness

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #9

December 12, 2012

Hexagram 9: Hsiao Ch’u—The Taming Power of the Small

A small animal
wind; the book of days is dry.
Have a girlfriend in

the suburbs without
a wife. Be able to just
hang. Have a Western

girlfriend without a
wife. Couples fall out, Rover.
No legal wife! Blood,

terror, guilt . . . Better
info is not just for the
rich neighbors. Rain is

a virtue. Log on!
A gentleman is seeking
complex stowage, not

a culprit. Fu Road
is Heaven, Lady Zhen Li
is not. Small livestock!

As the saying goes:
The soft up and down is not
suspected for months.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

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Nietzsche

December 3, 2012

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God was Woman’s first
mistake; then Man; then Love; then
Christianity

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You have your way, I
have my way. Your way is fine
for a lunatic

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That which does not kill
me does not exist. Death is
the faith of all life

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If you gaze into
the abyss of marriage it
will destroy your soul

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Without egoism,
music would be a mistake
and art would be blind

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All things are subject
to the interpretation
of an idiot

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To live is to know
that suffering does not prove
anything at all

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