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261–303 China
Lu Ji (c. 261 – c. November 303), courtesy name Shiheng, was a Chinese essayist, military general, politician, and writer who lived during the late Three Kingdoms period and Jin dynasty of China.
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Caught between the unborn and the living, the writer struggles to maintain both depth and surface.
It is like following a branch to find the trembling leaves, like following a stream to find the spring.
When cutting an axe handle with an axe, surely the model is at hand.
The dark inside of the mind lies hidden; thoughts must be brought like a child from the womb, terrified and screaming.
However the sentences branch and spread, they grow out of well-placed phrases.
There are no new ideas, only those which rhyme with certain classics.
This may be easy to know, but it is difficult to put in practice.
We carry the bucket from the well, but it is soon again empty.
A single note from the lute, however beautiful, is not music.
Knowing order is like opening a dam in the river.
We hear the jade bell's laughter and think it laughs at us; for the poet there is terror in the dust.
He learns to recite the classics; he sings in the clear fragrance of the old masters
Through letters there is no road too distant to travel, no idea too confusing to be ordered.
The sleeves of dancers move with the melodies; the voices of singers rise and fall with the music.
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