Zhuangzi · 逍遙遊第一
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今子有五石之瓠，
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何不慮以為大樽而浮乎江湖，Locate the unknown ↗何不慮以為大樽而浮乎江湖，Keep different negatives apart ↗何不慮以為大樽而浮乎江湖，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗何不慮以為大樽而浮乎江湖，Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗何不慮以為大樽而浮乎江湖，Read the relationship between clauses ↗何不慮以為大樽而浮乎江湖，Recognize a question or an exclamation ↗Watch recurrence: 子 × 2 有 × 2 之 × 2 瓠 × 2 而 × 2 夫 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 逍遙遊第一瓠落無所水漿，其堅不能自舉也。剖之以為瓢，則瓠落無所容。非不呺然大也，吾為其無用而掊之。」
莊子 · 漁父第三十一夫子猶有主，千乘之君，見夫子未嘗不分庭伉禮，夫子猶有倨敖之容。
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- Work
- 莊子 · Zhuangzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Zhuang Zhou; the received collection includes multiple voices and layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0126 · base edition CHANT
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR5c0126_001.txt, lines 344–348. ZHUANG 1.3.5; Guo Qingfan 37; Wang Shumin 33; Fang Yong 24; Chen Guying 27
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