martes, 20 de noviembre de 2007

Analects, Books Sixteen, Nineteen, and Twenty

These books seem to be collected fragments or ununified pieces of text, unlike the other books, in which the text all follows a theme or have a common element that connects them and gives them their place in whichever book. These books have (seemingly) arbitrary passages that were apparently grouped together because there was nowhere else to put them.

Book Nineteen is an exception as it is the sayings of Confucius' students rather than Confucius himself and some of them have been previously shown.

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