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Butterfly
Dreamed around 300 BC by Zhuang-zi

One night I dreamed
I was a butterfly,
fluttering hither and thither,
content with my lot.

Suddenly I awoke and I
was Zhuang-zi again.

Who am I in reality?
A butterfly dreaming
that I am Zhuang-zi
or Zhuang-zi dreaming
he was a butterfly?

Zhuang-Zi dreams he's a butterfly; old book illustration by Wang I-chung.


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