| Ram: | At times I think art can express philosophy more eloquently than words. |
| Lily: | I notice the Chinese characters for 'state','river' and 'plum'. Any reason for that? |
| Linda: | We could invent reasons, but I don't think the author needed exegis. He believed things flowed well enough without explicit 'reasons'. What we call 'reasons' are essentially afterthoughts: the actual mechanics of life are invisible. |
| Ron: | That's disturbingly anti-intellectual. It sounds like a formula for fostering wimpy brains. |
| Ram: | Don't worry, it took 3 billion years to get this far & life 's far from wimpy. |
