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the arguing stopped
↑ to the head this did not
↑ to the body
↑ to the head this did not
↑ to the body
Notes
01 / What it says
What it says
The calm of having put the question down, not of having settled it.
心里那场争论停了，不是赢了。
02 / Where it comes from
Where it comes from
Pyrrho of Elis (c. 365–275 BC) wrote nothing down. Sextus Empiricus set it out around 200 AD, in Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Book I, chapter 12.
皮浪一个字没留。五百年后才有人替他写下来。
03 / How to try it today
How to try it today
One question you have been re-arguing for weeks: today, do not settle it. Say you don't know, and go and do the next thing.
有件事我翻来覆去想了很久，今天不定了。这话说着容易。
04 / Its honest limit
Its honest limit
By his own account it arrived by chance, once they had given up trying for it — Apelles only got the froth when he threw the sponge away — so it cannot be aimed at. And the promise was narrow: quiet in matters of opinion, moderate feeling in what cannot be avoided.
他自己说，是不求了以后才来的。求就求不到。它管的只是想法，冷还是冷。
margin
a- + tarassein: not stirred up
Apelles threw the sponge
it followed, like a shadow
opinions only, never the cold