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Saturday, 11 July 2009

The value of suggestion

"One day Soshi was walking on the bank of a river with a friend. "How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water," exclaimed Soshi. His friend spake to him thus; "you are not a fish, how do you know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?" "You are not myself", returned Soshi, "how do you know that i do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?"