Sixty-Four Chance Pieces
Author | : Will Buckingham |
Publisher | : Earnshaw Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9888273027 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789888273027 |
Rating | : 4/5 (027 Downloads) |
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.