That’s just too much weight placed on inflection for me.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
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In a stone den was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions.
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He often went to the market to look for lions.
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At ten o’clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market.
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At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market.
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He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die.
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He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den.
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The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it.
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After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions.
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When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses.
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Try to explain this matter.
“Sush!” she say.
I had heard of this work when I was in Chinese school. This is the first time I’ve actually heard it or seen the calligraphy. Thanks!