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I tried searching but couldnt find it, I googled it and searched hat rack for it, and excuse me for being lazy, but I have no idea when in the book its mentioned where it is that it's mentioned about han fei-tzu changing his table/rug/picture daily.
Does anyone know the page(s)? that's all I need. Even the chapter would do.
PS: Sorry for run-on sentences, punctuation, and possible grammatical errors my post may contain.
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I'm rereading that book right now... I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in about 75-120? Just guessing... Do you want me to search for you? I've got the book right next to me...
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"han fei-tzu changing his table/rug/picture daily" with the excuse of "A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing, a pure soul must expose itself to new things everyday."
Sounds like the behaviour of an obsessive/compulsive shopper with severe AttentionDeficitDisorder repeating a slogan written by an advertising flack.
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Well, at the risk (perhaps again) of getting myself into something I might not want to get into... I took the original post as a quick request for a reference - just throwing out anything that might trigger a memory in someone else to what they were looking for.
Also - in the book I don't get the feel that any of the godspoken handle the shopping... Who's to say that it wouldn't have driven him to more rituals if there had been the same rug/table/picture two days in a row and his 'servants' were merely trying to avoid that?
(ftr - please, aspectre, don't take me as argumentative because i mean it simply conversationally)
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quote:Originally posted by aspectre: "han fei-tzu changing his table/rug/picture daily" with the excuse of "A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing, a pure soul must expose itself to new things everyday."
Sounds like the behaviour of an obsessive/compulsive shopper with severe AttentionDeficitDisorder repeating a slogan written by an advertising flack.
Have you ever read the book? There is a reason he acts that way.
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