Feb. 22nd, 2023

Psyche

Feb. 22nd, 2023 02:34 pm
sdi: Oil painting of the Heliconian Muse whispering inspiration to Hesiod. (Default)

Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly: he fluttered here and there, carefree and unselfconscious. Suddenly he awoke, and there he was again: Zhuangzi the human, beyond a doubt. But... was he the Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or was he a butterfly now dreaming that he was Zhuangzi?

(Zhuangzi II, as adapted by yours truly)


When the soul sleeps, the body feels;
 when the body sleeps, the soul reveals
  in dreams, the coming woes or weals.

(Pindar, as quoted by Plutarch, and as adapted by yours truly)


The construction from scratch is left as an exercise for the reader, but as a hint, the top two circles are centered at <±3,0>; the bottom two circles are centered at <±4,3>; and all four of them intersect at <0,0>.

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