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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · Oct 24
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
Namgyalma mantra OM NAMO BHAGAVATE / SARVA TRAILOKYA PRATIVISHISHTAYA / BUDDHAYATE NAMAH / TADYATHA / OM BHRUM BHRUM BHRUM / SHODHAYA SHODHAYA / VISHODHAYA VISHODHAYA / ASAMA SAMANTA / AVABHASASPHARANAGATI / GAGANA SVABHAVA VISHUDDHE / ABHISHINCHANTUMAM / SARVA TATHAGATAH SUGATA PRAVACHANA / AMRITA ABHISHEKAIH / MAHAMUDRA MANTRAPADAIH / AHARA AHARA / MAMA AYURSSAMDHARANI / SHODHAYA SHODHAYA / VISHODHAYA VISHODHAYA / GAGANA SVABHAVA VISHUDDHE / USHNISHA VIJAYA PARISHUDDHE / SAHASRA RASHMI SANCHODITE / SARVA TATHAGATA AVALOKINI / SHATPARAMITA PARIPURANI / SARVA TATHAGATA MATE / DASHABHUMI PRATISHTHITE / SARVA TATHAGATA HRIDAYA / ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / MUDRE MUDRE MAHAMUDRE / VAJRA KAYA SAMHATANA PARISHUDDHE / SARVA KARMA AVARANA VISHUDDHE / PRATINIVARTAYA MAMA AYUR VISHUDDHE / SARVA TATHAGATA SAMAYA / ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / OM MUNE MUNE MAHA MUNE / VIMUNE VIMUNE / MAHAVIMUNE / MATI MATI MAHAMATI / MAMATI SUMATI TATHATA / BHUDHAKOTI PARISHUDDHE / VISPHUTA BUDDHE SHUDDHE / HE HE JAYA JAYA / VIJAYA VIJAYA / SMARA SMARA / SPHARA SPHARA / SPHARAYA SPHARAYA / SARVA BUDDHA ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / SHUDDHE SHUDDHE / BUDDHE BUDDHE / VAJRE VAJRE / MAHA VAJRE SUVAJRE / VAJRA GARBHE JAYA GARBHE / VIJAYA GARBHE / VAJRA JVALA GARBHE / VAJRODBHAVE / VAJRA SAMBHAVE / VAJRE VAJRINI / VAJRAM BHAVATU MAMA SHARIRAM / SARVA SATTANANCHA KAYA PARISHUDDHIR BHAVATU / ME SADA SARVAGATI PARISHUDDHISH CHA / SARVA TATHAGATASH CHA MAM / SAMASHVASAYANTU / BUDDHYA BUDDHYA / SIDDHYA SIDDHYA / BODHAYA BODHAYA / VIBODHAYA VIBODHAYA / MOCHAYA MOCHAYA / VIMOCHAYA VIMOCHAYA / SHODHAYA SHODHAYA / VISHODHAYA VISHODHAYA / SAMANTANA MOCHAYA MOCHAYA / SAMANTA RASHMI PARISHUDDHE / SARVA TATHAGATA HRIDAYA / ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / MUDRE MUDRE MAHAMUDRE / MAHAMUDRA MANTRAPADAIH SVAHA / OM BHRUM SVAHA / OM AMRITA AYUR DADE SVAHA
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saw an ai gen video and it made me feel nauseous w/ a tinge of psychosis. to see so many strands of narrative, of aesthetic, blended together in a manipulative mass was disturbing. having trouble articulating what exactly was going on but don't think i can look at that stuff for my own mental health
January 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
edwardw2.bsky.social
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
January 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
I spent last weekend building a basic book scanning setup. Now I present the very strange "Stupidtheorems", written, illustrated, and self-published (?) in 1966 by Dwight W. Batteau. Not exactly outsider math, but it's outsider something all right. 🧵
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Stupidtheorems by Dwight W. Batteau : Dwight W. Batteau : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Stupidtheorems by Dwight W. Batteau, a curious book published by Windward House in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1966. With illustrations presumably by the...
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February 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
Weekend flea find: a “Log scale” ruler that is not what you think. It’s for measuring wood logs.
A “log scale” ruler at a flea market
June 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
U admin: It's OK to reduce our library's physical collection- we have beautiful licensed eBooks!

Those beautiful eBooks: (not downloadable)
A shot of ebook text showing horrible formatting in math equations.
August 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
New archival project: the Lawson Perspective Charts!
It's a set of big (25x22in) charts for perspective drawing.
Eight charts, various angles to the plane & horizon. With original instructions! The highest quality scans I could muster. I'll make a video when I have time. @archive.org links below
Lawson's chart #7, with 30/60 degree viewpoint, low horizon
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
The text does not explain the origins of Chisanbop (Sung Jin and Hang Young Pai), but it does associate the method with the structure of the abacus. This description appears in Lieberthal's book as well.
Text describing the similarities of Chisanbop (Mathpattes) and the abacus. French text: En jouant du piano, vous pouvez enfoncer votre pouce, votre majeur e t votre auriculaire en même temps afin de plaquer un accord. Cela est impossible avec MATHPATTES. Vos doigts doivent agir dans un ordre soigneusement préétabli. En d'autres mots, vous ne devez absolument pas improviser ou suivre vos impulsions. Cette règle rigoureuse s'applique à d'autres instruments comme le boulier ou abaque d'où MATHPATTES pourrait provenir (ou inversement, MATHPATTES pourrait avoir précédé le boulier). Le boulier ancien fut probablement dessiné d'après la main. Remarquez la ressemblance entre les valeurs numériques représentées par chacun d'eux. Sous la conduite d'un cerveau prodigieux, les mains semblent être à l'origine des premiers progrès du calcul. The same section from the english version. Text says: FINGER-PRESSING SEQUENCE There is one final rule to learn before you get into action with Finger-math. And this is one place where this method parts company with piano-playing and typewriting. The new rule has to do with the order in which the fingers must be pressed. Playing the piano, you might press your thumb, your middle finger, and your pinky simultaneously to sound a chord. That just can't happen with Fingermath. The basic principle, which makes it possible for you to build up numbers correctly and scientifically, requires you to use your fingers in a carefully developed sequence. They may be combined only according to that sequence. In other words, you mustn't make up your own tunes or improvise in any way. A similar rigid sequence is followed with other devices, such as the abacus, from which Fingermath was developed- or perhaps it was the other way around. I think it's reasonable to assume that the first tools ever used to calculate numbers were fingers, and that the abacus was modeled on the hand, which, under the guidance of a wondrous brain, may be credited with the earliest developments of computation. The ancient abacus probably was modeled after the hand. Note the similarity between the numerical values represented by each:
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
The original space invaders speeds up gradually as you kill the invaders. But this wasn’t an intentional feature- the game is just speeding up because it has fewer things to render on the screen.
m4rina.bsky.social maɾina • vgd @m4rina.bsky.social · Jul 4
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago

so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
2023 tweet screencap: the person asks "what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?"
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
Now short: cow tape!
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Cow Tape! Estimate live weight of cow #cow #farming #tape
YouTube video by Chris Staecker
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November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
New short: the Larrometer! A surprisingly sophisticated wheelchart for calculating cow feed. #cowtools

youtube.com/shorts/uanpW...
Five dimensional cowculator! 🐮🧮 #cowtools
YouTube video by Chris Staecker
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January 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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chrisstaecker.bsky.social
Just saw this old machine with tons of oddities: BOTH 10-key and “full” keyboards, 3-pronged digit shifting crank, 2 big asymmetrical carrying handles. Gotta look at all the pictures.

ebay.us/m/Yv0fQ5
Pardon Our Interruption...
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January 4, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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A group of Peruvian shamans gathered on a beach in southern Lima to perform their annual New Year ritual, delivering predictions for 2026 that included the fall of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a serious illness for US President Donald Trump
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
edwardw2.bsky.social
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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yunxie.bsky.social
Records of the Western Regions 大唐西域记, written by Xuanzhuang 玄奘 (602-664), woodblock printing, reprinted by Jinling Sutra Press 金陵刻经处 in 1957, sponsored by the Buddhist Association of China.

Purchased in 2025 at the Drukkunstbeurs in Amersfoort.
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
edwardw2.bsky.social
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
January 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
edwardw2.bsky.social
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
January 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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bodhimindful.bsky.social
In Japan, the big seasonal holiday is celebrating the New Year.

People will watch a special music show called Kōhaku Uta Gassen on New Year's Eve.

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January 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆
The giant Zardoz head with a party hat and noisemaker
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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edwardw2.bsky.social
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
Namgyalma mantra OM NAMO BHAGAVATE / SARVA TRAILOKYA PRATIVISHISHTAYA / BUDDHAYATE NAMAH / TADYATHA / OM BHRUM BHRUM BHRUM / SHODHAYA SHODHAYA / VISHODHAYA VISHODHAYA / ASAMA SAMANTA / AVABHASASPHARANAGATI / GAGANA SVABHAVA VISHUDDHE / ABHISHINCHANTUMAM / SARVA TATHAGATAH SUGATA PRAVACHANA / AMRITA ABHISHEKAIH / MAHAMUDRA MANTRAPADAIH / AHARA AHARA / MAMA AYURSSAMDHARANI / SHODHAYA SHODHAYA / VISHODHAYA VISHODHAYA / GAGANA SVABHAVA VISHUDDHE / USHNISHA VIJAYA PARISHUDDHE / SAHASRA RASHMI SANCHODITE / SARVA TATHAGATA AVALOKINI / SHATPARAMITA PARIPURANI / SARVA TATHAGATA MATE / DASHABHUMI PRATISHTHITE / SARVA TATHAGATA HRIDAYA / ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / MUDRE MUDRE MAHAMUDRE / VAJRA KAYA SAMHATANA PARISHUDDHE / SARVA KARMA AVARANA VISHUDDHE / PRATINIVARTAYA MAMA AYUR VISHUDDHE / SARVA TATHAGATA SAMAYA / ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / OM MUNE MUNE MAHA MUNE / VIMUNE VIMUNE / MAHAVIMUNE / MATI MATI MAHAMATI / MAMATI SUMATI TATHATA / BHUDHAKOTI PARISHUDDHE / VISPHUTA BUDDHE SHUDDHE / HE HE JAYA JAYA / VIJAYA VIJAYA / SMARA SMARA / SPHARA SPHARA / SPHARAYA SPHARAYA / SARVA BUDDHA ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / SHUDDHE SHUDDHE / BUDDHE BUDDHE / VAJRE VAJRE / MAHA VAJRE SUVAJRE / VAJRA GARBHE JAYA GARBHE / VIJAYA GARBHE / VAJRA JVALA GARBHE / VAJRODBHAVE / VAJRA SAMBHAVE / VAJRE VAJRINI / VAJRAM BHAVATU MAMA SHARIRAM / SARVA SATTANANCHA KAYA PARISHUDDHIR BHAVATU / ME SADA SARVAGATI PARISHUDDHISH CHA / SARVA TATHAGATASH CHA MAM / SAMASHVASAYANTU / BUDDHYA BUDDHYA / SIDDHYA SIDDHYA / BODHAYA BODHAYA / VIBODHAYA VIBODHAYA / MOCHAYA MOCHAYA / VIMOCHAYA VIMOCHAYA / SHODHAYA SHODHAYA / VISHODHAYA VISHODHAYA / SAMANTANA MOCHAYA MOCHAYA / SAMANTA RASHMI PARISHUDDHE / SARVA TATHAGATA HRIDAYA / ADHISHTHANA ADHISHTHITE / MUDRE MUDRE MAHAMUDRE / MAHAMUDRA MANTRAPADAIH SVAHA / OM BHRUM SVAHA / OM AMRITA AYUR DADE SVAHA
October 24, 2024 at 5:27 PM
edwardw2.bsky.social
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
edwardw2.bsky.social
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December 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
the Chinese version of "no one reads anymore" is "no one remembers how to write Chinese characters anymore"
how to write some characters. [10] In 2008 the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China conducted a survey of 3,000 teachers, where sixty percent complained of declining writing ability. 16] Another anecdotal example can be seen during a spelling bee show hosted on CCTV in 2013, where only 30% of participants were able to write "toad" (Chinese: 癞蛤蟆)
December 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
Which brings us to today's vocab word:

面首 (miàn shǒu) male concubine (archaic)

古人叫做『面首』，面哩，取其貌美；首哩，取其髮美。

"The ancients called them 'miàn shǒu,' 'mian' 面 for their beautiful faces, and 'shou' 首 for their lustrous hair." -curiously literate wife of bandit king
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
working on a short essay exploring "peach, plum, orange, and date" in historical Chinese semiology, building off a passage from Flowers in the Mirror 鏡花緣 while also exploring a conundrum/ paradox of historical literary transmission: does the principle reference the event, or the event the principle?
kmichaelwilson.bsky.social Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 19d
is the event referencing the ritual principle, or does the principle reference the event..?
玉藻: 食棗桃李，弗致于核，瓜祭上環，食中棄所操。凡食果實者後君子，[…] Yu Zao section of the Li Ji 禮記: When eating dates, peaches, or plums, they did not cast the stones away (on the ground). They put down the first slice of a melon as an offering, ate the other slices, and threw away the part by which they held it. When others were eating fruits with a man of rank, they ate them after him… (Legge trans.)
December 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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seva.bsky.social
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM