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庄子行于山中，见大木，枝叶盛茂。
伐木者止其旁而不取也。
问其故，曰：「无所可用。」
庄子曰：「此木以不材，得终其天年。」
夫子出于山，舍于故人之家。
故人喜，命竖子杀雁而烹之。
竖子请曰：「其一能鸣，其一不能鸣，请奚杀？」
主人曰：「杀不能鸣者。」
明日，弟子问于庄子曰：
「昨日山中之木，以不材得终其天年；
今主人之雁，以不材死。
先生将何处？」
For anyone who doesn’t read Chinese, here is the passage, from the chapter “The Mountain Tree” (山木) in the Zhuangzi:
Zhuangzi was walking in the mountains when he saw a great tree, thick with branches and leaves. A woodcutter stopped beside it but did not cut it. Asked why, he said: “It’s no use for anything.” Zhuangzi said: “Because it is useless, this tree will live out the years Heaven gave it.”
Leaving the mountains, the Master stayed with an old friend, who was delighted and told his servant to kill a goose and cook it. The servant asked: “One can cackle and one can’t. Which shall I kill?” The host said: “Kill the one that can’t.”
The next day a disciple asked: “Yesterday the tree lived out its years because it was useless. Today the goose died because it was useless. Master, where would you stand?”
The site stops at the question. In the book, Zhuangzi laughs and answers:
庄子笑曰：「周将处乎材与不材之间。材与不材之间，似之而非也，故未免乎累。若夫乘道德而浮游则不然。无誉无訾，一龙一蛇，与时俱化，而无肯专为。」
“I would stand somewhere between useful and useless. But that only looks like the answer, so it still won’t spare me trouble. It is different if you ride the Way and wander free: no praise, no blame, now a dragon, now a snake, changing with the times, never content to be only one thing.”
I’ve also kept a copy on the record at indelebile.xyz, exactly as it appears on the page, with a snapshot here: https://archive.ph/wmBtl
