Author: Jason Gots / Source: Big Think
- “I knew in the case of Li Bai, I should follow the poems. Every masterpiece by him would be kind of a small crisis…a center for drama in his life.”
- “There are people who want a different kind of fulfillment. Society should be open to that. In the long run, you don’t know—maybe those idlers can produce more for the society.”
Let’s start with a very old poem :
On the bank of Caishi River is Li Bai’s grave
Surrounded by wild grass that stretches to clouds.
How sad that the bones buried deep in here
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