‘Everything flows like this’ — Analects
The Tower of Reading
逝者如斯
This is the second chapter in Studying Short Classical Chinese Texts by Zhong Shuhe 鐘叔河,《念樓學短·論語十篇之二》。The title of Zhong’s selection of ten excerpts from the Analects of Confucius is ‘Everything Flows Like This’ 逝者如斯夫, a line from the Analects that is also the Chinese title of this chapter, sans the emphatic particle 夫 fū.… Read