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Wú Chéng'ēn Frasi e Citazioni
Wú Chéng'ēn: Frasi in inglese
Origine: Monkey: A Journey to the West
Monkey, chapter 1 (trans. Arthur Waley)
Journey to the West [Xiyouji] (1592)
Preface to a collection of short stories about monsters, now lost, as quoted in Arthur Waley's introduction to the American edition of Monkey (New York: Grove Press, 1943)
“A monkey's transformed body weds the human mind.
Mind is a monkey—this, the truth profound.”
Commentarial verses in chapter 7
Journey to the West [Xiyouji] (1592)