INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Begin reading at
bottom line of the d
at right and continue
to the top
2. Not the other way
Caution:
Reading Backwards
Can Cause Eyestrain
I have a kind of perceptual
double-jointedness that allows
me to do this.
If you find it too difficult, you
can begin at thetop and read
normally, rearranging it in your
head as you go, no?
WHAT THE
HECK YOU ARE
LOOKING AT:
At right is a diagram of the near
future, suitable for hanging with
refrigerator magnets. A map of the
113 days between midnight of
9/9/99 (surely some kind of dead
line) and midnight of 12/31/99 (the
beginning of the end of the 20th
century.) As a Chinese ideogram
it’s read from bottom to top, so
/ start at the bottom and read to the
top. Each line of the major hexa
gram contains its own, smaller,
self-interpreting hexagram of text
(read bottom to top.) An interpreta
tion of the large hexagram is avail
able, at the bottom of the page. All
the hexagrams are numbered from
the King Wen Sequence and can be
looked up in almost any copy of the
I Ching by the same number.
*
______l wurti, u&riCiiiiDEin iu, j.uuu ■ umui nLDiuionnn mm i/iua u
“Everyone’s entitled to an opinion. Here’s how I get mine. ”
. —Mark Baldridge
or ? not
Will we have a good millennium
What is it we see at the bottom
the century’s bright edge
dropping our crumbs over
What is the nature of our feasting
43
Is something dying or is something being born
Is it what ✓ we dreamed
or are we more beautiful
;$ _ . --A
the century’s faded footnote
wondering about ✓ our place
Looking for illumination
30
which the universe grinds
difficult * teeth
sometimes called “hexagrams”
broken * or whole
six lines * each
Entirely composed of symbols
21
s.
Interpretation:
54 Kuei Mei A Young Bride
' A young woman moves to a
new place, takes up new
duties. )
House cleaning! Confucius
say: “Symbol of Man’s end
and Man^ Beginning.”
To achieve an enduring end,
ine superior Person must recognize mistakes
made at the beginning.
The marriage reference looks promising, but
what’s all this about mistakes made and
“man’s end?”
Certainly, the time has come to leave Mom
and Dad behind and move our furniture into
the future, to “marry” the next century and
not try to cling to the past. That this involves
certain losses, endings and dangers, we
already knew...
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