Where the Tao Te Ching is aphoristic, Chuang Tzu is a storyteller: the vast fish that becomes a bird, the useless tree that survives because no carpenter wants it, the man who dreamt he was a butterfly and could not afterwards be sure which he was. Herbert Giles’s translation catches the mockery as well as the mysticism.
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