suddenly occurs to me, is the obsession with threes purely an indo-european thing? I can't think of anything remotely similar in chinese culture
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it's literally omnipresent (four occupations, thirty-six stratagems, four great masterpieces, four books and five classics...) but I've never seen english commentary on it
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this isn't something that went away either. four olds and four news, five black categories, four modernizations, four nevers
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Tried to ask about that pattern and just confused people. Was forced to assume it's a satisfying rhetorical device. (Do the Triads count?)
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