An idea from Zhuangzi

Passing his friend Hui Shi’s grave, a man tells of a mason who could chip a thin scab off a man’s nose with an axe, because the man stood perfectly still. When that man died, it ended. Since Hui Shi died, he has had no one to talk with.

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