I'd love to talk about the philosophy in this text, but I'd also like to talk about it as a piece of literature. What do we make of all the characters in the text, as well as the context, the layout of the story with its exposition that leads to the climax and the eventual resolution, and all of the rhetorical flourishes? We largely skipped over the literary aspects of our last two Eastern texts, but this one is such an intentionally beautiful piece of writing that I think a discussion of its literary elements might help our discussion of the philosophy.
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