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View all comments Did you ever start a book, even though you were pretty sure the content would fly over your head, because you were curious about the prose style?
I just finished The Analects of Confucius, and, sure enough, my yellow “remember this pearl of wisdom” hi-liter got a hell of a lot less use while I was reading it than my orange “chop this into song lyrics” hi-liter.
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Like most works of Chinese literature, an extensively annotated one that has in turn been re-annotated for an English audience is essential to get anything out of them. No one has read this stuff without footnotes in 1500 years.
