I’m working through the commentaries on Mengzi and Xunzi right now, oh my god this is perfect.
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Brendan O’Kane
(17th century Chinese commentator on fiction encounters a joke)
So a priest [a priest: marvelous writing], a rabbi [a rabbi: like a priest, but different; marvelous writing], and a phlebotomist [unlike either the priest or the rabbi; marvelous writing] walk into a tavern [I saw a tavern once]
So a priest [a priest: marvelous writing], a rabbi [a rabbi: like a priest, but different; marvelous writing], and a phlebotomist [unlike either the priest or the rabbi; marvelous writing] walk into a tavern [I saw a tavern once]
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