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            PISKI HEDO                              FISH PLEASURE

    Chuangtze e Huitze pa gresi           Chuangtze and Huitze had strolled
 ad-epi ponti supra Hao; kron          on to the bridge over the Hao, when
 u-la pa dice;                         the former observed, "See how the
 "Vide, komo plu piski sagita ci       fishes dart about.  That is the
 e la!  U-la es piski hedo!"           pleasue of fishes."

    "Tu auto ne es u piski," dice         "You yourself are not a fish,"
 Huitze, "komo tu ski de piski         said Huitze, "how can you possibly
 hedo?"                                know about the pleasure of fishes?"

    "E tu ne es mi," reakti               "And you not being I," retorted
 Chuangtze.  Komo tu ski; mi ne        Chuangtze, "How can you know that
 ski?"                                 which I do not know?"

    "Mi ne es tu, e ne ski; qod tu        "That I, not being you, do not
 ski," reakti Huitze, "es iso mi       know what you know," replied Huitze,
 doxo; tu ne es u piski; e tu ne       is identical with my argument that
 pote ski de piski hedo."              you, not being a fish, cannot know
                                       what fish pleasure is like."

    "Lase na ki versi a qestio mo,"       "Let us go back to your original
 pa dice Chuangtze.  "Tu questio       question," said Chuangtze.  You ask
 mi; komo mi ski de u reali piski      me how I know in what consists the
 hedo.  Tu qestio monstra ke tu pa     pleasure of fishes.  Your very
 ski u-ra; mi pa ski.  Mi pa ski id    question shows that you knew I knew.
 ex mi plu este epi i-ci ponti."       I knew it from my own feelings on
                                       this bridge."


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