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Thursday, March 16, 2006

War and Peace

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci explains that the above Chinese character for "war" can be divided into 戈 (spear) and 止 (stop) -- "a tradition among Chinese scholars reaching back almost two millenia, a tradition that allowed one to see, buried inside the word for war, the possibilties, however frail, of peace."