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The English sinologist Arthur Waley writes of great Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu: “To be known is to be lost. The wise man ‘hates that the crowd should come’.”*

Well, I’m so much less known now than I used to be – no more bestsellers, no more TV, interviews etc. etc.

Am I now – perhaps – a little less lost, and – perhaps – a little wise? At last, perhaps?

(2016)

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*Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China (George Allen & Unwin, 1939), p. 17