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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me, a Sinologist: The essay topic is 吾猶及史之闕文也. 1. Exordium: The Sage laments that the virtue of former historians no longer obtains. 2. Propositio thematis: Of old, historians left gaps in texts rather than fill them with baseless hearsay

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13/5/25, 1:50 am23 reposts132 likes

369enthusiast.bsky.social

@369enthusiast.bsky.social

13 May 2025

i think this is an eight-legged essay joke but i don't know enough to know which translator are you referring to with those section-labels

Brendan O’Kane

@bokane.org

13 May 2025

The good Fr. Zottoli, or at least a vague recollection of his terminology, by way of John Minford.

369enthusiast.bsky.social

@369enthusiast.bsky.social

13 May 2025

hell yeah

Kellum Tate-Jones, PhD

@kellumtj.bsky.social

13 May 2025

I do not know anything about Sinology but I very much appreciate the field-specific esoterica of this post 😁😁 Fifteen people in the world are rolling on the ground right now.

Brendan O’Kane

@bokane.org

13 May 2025

Thanks - I like to post from the middle of a very narrow sliver of Venn diagram.

China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum

@chinalawtranslate.bsky.social

"There are no gaps in my resume- what you see is constant productivity punctuated by periods where I was compensated for it."

Brendan O’Kane

@bokane.org

this is, unfortunately, the real answer

kwokying.bsky.social

@kwokying.bsky.social

13 May 2025

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me, a Chinese Buddhist: (pointing at the empty space in the resume) I don't see emptiness, here or anywhere. (Proceed to chant in a trance) 一切空非空，亦空亦非空，非空非非空，是為諸佛法。(Looking at the interviewer disapprovingly)大聖說空法，為離諸見故，若復見於空，諸佛所不化。