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“Not being fish, how do we know their happiness

We can only take an idea and make it into a
painting. To probe the subtleties of the ordinary,

We must describe the indescribable.”

Colophon in Zhou Dongqing, The Pleasures of Fish

㺾Ꮃ㎤
㴐㺾Ꮃ㎤咥ᕩग⳿
➧咥㾬㺌ᕩᱨ
㴈㯌౛⒱गᮣ
㲣㜳㺲㱡દᱨ
➶タ㱸㦣ᩔᮣ