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Do you have a specific Calendar you use Poc?
In my mind this hexagram is filed near Thoreau's description of Walden Pond in the Autumn.
I've a theory on that too
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=47&highlight=Thoreau
That was eight years ago, and I have yet to find concrete evidence that Thoreau read Mohl's Y-King, but I don't see how he could have missed it. Thoreau read deeply in oriental literature and was exceptionally competent in Latin. If the book existed in a collection available to him, he would have read it. Catalogues of these collections still aren't available online, but Mohl's Y-King is now a Google Book.
The stories that are based in I Ching like the Forest of Changes, I could not find a translation of that in english for sale. Maybe it is in a bigger book with many stories?
Or is the same old calendar from Forest of Changes used in Michael Nylan's translations of Classic of the Great Mystery?
Also was reading how You and Peter were going back and forth about Meng Xi.
Is Meng Xi the same thing as Fung Yu-lan?
I don't know enough about Thoreau, and didn't know he was deeply into oriental literature. I like your juxtaposition of ideas with his chapter's and the hexagrams.
I wonder if any story or quest... or journey could be looked at with these kinds of hexagram chapters? It makes sense, as they are natural progressions of nature.
Oh no, another question! Who started the numbering of the hexagrams?
A number of Chinese books -- including the Dao De Jing, The Art of War, and the Thirty-Six Stratagems -- are modeled on the I Ching.
Bradford knows, I'm sure. I think the practice was introduced by translators, and it is a great convenience for those who do not know Chinese.
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