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by gsf_emergency_6 148 days ago
(Most literate readers will have access to a plethora of modern annotations)

http://www.issplc.com/upload/pdf/2025/06/13A%20Textual%20Stu...

>颐六三. This line means “Opposing the principles of nourishment; steadfastness brings misfortune.

As implied by

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588660

So I Ching works well even for playing against the universe??

(When divination succeeds, credit the universe; when it fails, forgive the interpreter)

(Found that pdf while cursorily looking for a link between Tarocchi & Mongolian sheep bone divination, via either Mamluk or Marco Polo XD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shagai#:~:text=is%20as%20part%...

Italian Romanis had no need for the 3rd use ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_harmony

https://old.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/nrg00d/vowel_h... )

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That quote—'When divination succeeds, credit the universe; when it fails, forgive the interpreter'—is absolute gold. I might have to put that on the website footer!