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Kim

CHAPTER 14
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It is only the fever of the blow.

I myself am still sick and shaken.' 'No! It was because I was upon the Way--tuned as are si-nen [cymbals] to the purpose of the Law.

I departed from that ordinance.

The tune was broken: followed the punishment.

In my own Hills, on the edge of my own country, in the very place of my evil desire, comes the buffet--here!' (He touched his brow.) 'As a novice is beaten when he misplaces the cups, so am I beaten, who was Abbot of Such-zen.


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