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lindsay said:Yes, I'm hoping archeologists will soon find the original cocktail napkins the Duke used to sketch out the first draft. And old Wen's prison notes, too.
In all seriousness, this probably isn't a good time to spend a lot of time reconstructing the original Yi. Who remembers the dozens of learned scholars who tried to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone? A bit of Hexagram 5 may be in order these days.
Lindsay, did you see the thread where someone asked Yi, "Who do we speak to when we divine?"? To the startlement of quite a few people, Yi answered 34, unchanging.lindsay said:The big question about divination, as in all other things in history, is cui bono? who benefits? Who wants to know the conventionally unknowable enough to devise and use a system like the Yi? The only thing worth the trouble is ... power. Power through knowledge.
lindsay said:You know the type, people like those dreadful academic intellectuals so many people on this forum despise. I could see people like that inventing the Yi a lot sooner than trance-crazed mystical shamans who bathe every other year and eat toads.
stevev said:but that's the funniest think I've read all day.
bradford said:ya don't Eat toads, ya big sillies
ya lick them, or smoke their venom
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