GR translation: the mark of Youthful Folly

[Mark Kohut]

Everybody read the Wilhelm. Only. In context the question is like what Mike
asked:
in his forehead or ON his forehead......read about the I Ching and you
should see it meant
IN, embedded in one's being, fated......arguably...

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 4:50 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I lost my Wilhelm version in the divorce.  She didn’t even
> ask… 🥸
>
> But at dinner parties I was always the one to do the reading. It’s full of
> snippets of insight into family/power relationships repressed by the
> various line groupings of the lines.  As with all divination vehicles, the
> meaning/interpretations are supposed to be VERY fluid, and in the best
> readings the real message is delivered via the psychic sensitivities of the
> reader first, as well as the seeker.
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 3:25 PM Darah Kehnemuyi via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> >  Youthful Folly is the translation by Wilhelm/Baynes (Princeton Univ.)A
> > different rendering given by David Hinton is "Inception - Thicket" (FSG)
> > ...                         D.
> >     On Sunday, April 17, 2022, 01:26:34 PM EDT, Mike Jing <
> > gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 6:12 AM Michael Bailey <
> > michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Mark covered this but I want to add some details.
> > >
> > > Youthful Folly is I Ching Hexagram 4
> > >
> >
> > I'm aware of this, of course.
> >
> > It's important to remember, however, that Youthful Folly is a name given
> by
> > westerners, and the hexagram is simply called "Meng"(蒙) in Chinese, which
> > doesn't carry the same connotations as the English name. So if the
> sentence
> > is translated as saying Pirate was carrying the hexagram Meng on top of
> his
> > head wherever he went, it would make no sense at all to a Chinese reader.
> > That's exactly what the published translation did.
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