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"Have you heard about the bird that lives in the south, the Phoenix that never grows old? This undying Phoenix rises out of the South Sea and flies to the Sea of the North, never alighting except on certain sacred trees, He will touch no food but the most exquisite rare fruit, and drink only from the clearest springs.
"Once an owl, chewing a dead rat already half decayed, saw the Phoenix fly over, and screeched with alarm, clutching the rat to himself in fear and dismay."
Then Chuang Tzu said to Hui, "Why are you so frantic, clinging to your ministry and screeching at me in dismay?"
If Chuang Tzu were alive today, he would most certainly say to George W. Bush; "Why are you, like the owl, so frantic, clinging to your across-the-board tax cut, that half decayed dead rat, and screeching at your opponent in dismay?"
Lee Bird
Washington
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