The Lexicon · Genealogy · Antiquity
ZHUANGZI (莊子)
c. 369–c. 286 BCE
The Butterfly Dream (Subject Is a Sacrament. You Are Inventory.)
Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly; on waking, he did not know whether he was a man who had dreamt of being a butterfly, or a butterfly now dreaming of being a man. Limbo's central asymmetry is zhuangzian. The applicant is sacrament or inventory; the institution does not know; the institution names both. The dreamer and the dreamt swap on each page-refresh. The koan is filed under the applicant's `ref_id`.