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Reading the epigrams, a flash of insight: Perlis was a secret Zen master.

• spenczar5 3y ago
  You know, I dismissed these too easily in a different comment. Thinking of them as koans - containing contradictions, not holding truth, but revealing insights via the reader’s debate and struggle and resistance - makes me like them a lot more!
  • fuzztester 3y ago
    へー https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=ja&text=heh&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=ja&text=heh&op=tran... Make sure to press the speaker icon in the lower box. ;)
  • zem 3y ago
    or, in perlis's own words: > 125. Epigrams crystallize incongruities.
    • fuzztester 3y ago
      Ah, the duality! as some Advaitins would say ;)