"The net of crime is not taken up" so they don't catch the crimes in the net (apparatus of the state?), for want of 'taking it up'/reeling it in/using the apparatus of the state to punish wrongdoing?
"But she is [no better than] an owl." ??
"Those from whom come no lessons, no instruction, Are women and eunuchs." but a second ago she was wise?
'But they do not say [that their words were] very wrong; - [They say], ' What evil was there in them? As if in the three times cent per cent of traffic, A superior man should have any knowledge of it;' what?
'Heaven is letting down its net, And many [are the calamities in it].' so we're back with the net, but I'm not clear on what this net is doing
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Re: 264. 瞻卬 - Zhan Yang
Date: 2021-06-03 05:37 pm (UTC)"But she is [no better than] an owl." ??
"Those from whom come no lessons, no instruction,
Are women and eunuchs." but a second ago she was wise?
'But they do not say [that their words were] very wrong; -
[They say], ' What evil was there in them?
As if in the three times cent per cent of traffic,
A superior man should have any knowledge of it;' what?
'Heaven is letting down its net,
And many [are the calamities in it].' so we're back with the net, but I'm not clear on what this net is doing