日出而作，日入而息 一 庄子

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

日出而作，日入而息 一 庄子

Sun’s out guns out, sun’s dead go the fuck to bed — ancient philosopher Zhuangzi’s profound wisdom for internet gremlins

#classicalchinese #translation

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

I’m actually charmed by how his words for sunrise and sunset imply that the sun has a house below the horizon — it’s exiting a door in the morning and entering a door at night

[capnhoppy@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea Tolkien had the sun entering the sky through the Gates of Morning and exiting through the Doors of Night in the Silmarillion.

[rbuzz@ioc.exchange]

@0xabad1dea

This might be the best translation of Zhuangzi since Fr.. Thomas Merton.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@RBuzz have you seen my other posts in this vein? https://厄.net/classicalchinese/livinginternet/

[townos@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea that's not exactly how that worked

remember, the ugly tree still provides fruit and shade

[rbuzz@ioc.exchange]

@0xabad1dea

I haven't but this is very interesting! You are doing some cool work. And I love the Odin pics too, by the way.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

added to the New Living Internet Translations page, and fixed a missing cite on another entry. https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/livinginternet/

also uh, fixed an embarrassing CSS issue, namely that the nice serif Chinese font was not loading because its filename was misspelled, but I didn't notice because my browser was successfully falling back on my desktop's installed version of the font