The Whistling Podcast

Episode 35: 天问 2: "The Riddle"


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Last summer, Nicholas Morrow Williams published a book about Tian Wen ("Heavenly Questions") that I discussed in a previous podcast. The title of the book is Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting “Heavenly Questions” across Two Millennia and was published by Harvard University Press.


I am still working up to my podcast about Transcendental Whistling; the pursuit has taken me down some interesting side paths. I hope you don't mind.

I present to you a rhymed, simplified version of "Heavenly Questions," translated by  Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang.

You can read along here:

https://www.cjvlang.com/Pfloyd/quyuan.html

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