XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
      
   >Knowing what meanings were possible for each character, knowing their order   
   >of reading, and understanding Tao, a translation becomes grunt-work, and I   
   >am grossly lazy.   
      
   Knowing all the many connotations   
   Translations become problematic   
      
   Such is dew to condensations of meanings   
      
   A picture is worth a thousand words   
      
   Chinese language is full of picture-words   
      
   Pictures within pictures can be pictured   
   For those who are able to observe subtle shifts   
   Of gears in the oral transmissions' cogitations   
      
   Mnemonic   
   De vices   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)