”The philosophical remarks in this book are, as it were, a number of sketches of landscapes which were made in the course of these long and involved journeys.” Wittgenstein’s preface to Philosophical Investigations quoted by Moeller and D’Ambrosio, Genuine Pretending: on the philosophy of the Zhuangzi (Columbia, 2017), p. 170. They add, ”Perhaps unbeknownst to their authors, most philosophical books, if not all of them, are such albums—including the Zhuangzi.”
Work-in-progress
Boots heavier step-
by-step, new snow ground into
old. I come up to
Canadian geese
heads down in the Bay. A bit
of Chinese painting.
A Daoist sage, or
Wittgenstein, wanders here in
no one’s perspective.
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