The Original Tao Te Ching

This e-book has an introduction then the translation. This is possibly the strangest book of all the versions I have seen. First, there are no verse numbers at all. Nowhere. Second, it seems that the book is done in the little used Te-Tao format, which makes it even harder to figure out the chapters. The reader has no clue as to where one verse ends and the other begins unless he or she already knows the verses.

Some sections seem basically normal, some seem clipped off, and some make very little if any sense. One of the oddest sentences is 'Blowhards cannot stand.'

Overall a very bad presentation.


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