GR translation: the mark of Youthful Folly

[Mark Kohut]

This brings us to the hexagram of Transformation of Youthful Folly. The
undeveloped mind of youthful folly tries to put itself in charge of
everything, rather than seeing the relationship of the seven levels as
governed by the ...

*Wilhelm/Baynes:**Youthful Folly* has success. It is not I who seek the
young fool; the young fool seeks me. At the first oracle I inform him. If
he asks two or three times, it is importunity. If he importunes, I give him
no information. Perseverance furthers.

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 7:36 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V12.38-13.2, P13.13-17   The scenes are highlights from Pirate’s career as
> a fantasist-surrogate, and go back to when he was carrying, everywhere he
> went, the mark of Youthful Folly growing in an unmistakable Mongoloid
> point, right out of the middle of his head.
>
> Here, is "the mark of Youthful Folly" the "Mongoloid point" itself, or is
> it actually a hexagram or whatever growing inside said Mongoloid point? I
> find the latter scenario strange and unlikely, but that's just me.
>
> I thought this sentence is just a funny way of saying when Pirate was young
> and inexperienced, is that correct?
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