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There was a boy living by the sea who loved seagulls. Each time he went to the shore, he cavorted with the birds, and more birds came to him than could be counted in the hundreds. Before and behind, left and right, he was completely surrounded by birds and spent the entire day playing with them, unwilling to leave the place. His father told him: “I have heard that all birds alight upon you. Catch some and bring them for me to play with.” The next day, no birds would come to him.
from pg. 448 of The Annals of Lu Buwei (239 B.C.) translated by John Knoblock and Jeffrey Riegel, Stanford U. Press, 2000.
