Sixty-Four Chance Pieces

Sixty-Four Chance Pieces
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Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9888273027
ISBN-13 : 9789888273027
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Book Synopsis Sixty-Four Chance Pieces by : Will Buckingham

Download or read book Sixty-Four Chance Pieces written by Will Buckingham and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual, and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the I Ching to work, using it to weave together 64 stories of chance and change, each flowing from one of the I Ching's 64 hexagrams. Moving between myth, fable, and travel writing, the collection offers an attempt to make sense of the maddening, changeable book that is the I Ching, with tales of inventors and fox-spirits, ancient poets and nonexistent rulers, kleptomaniac pensioners and infernal bureaucrats. Like the I Ching itself, this new Book of Changes is a puzzle, a conundrum, and a journey of many transformations, where nothing is quite what it seems.


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