Close Around A Pearl

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oyster

selfishness

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dad joke

shellfish

collective noun

vinegar

trivia

melting

It is the sick oyster which possesses the pearl.

is, in China, symbolic of genius in obscurity.

Pearl One of the eight ‘common emblems’ of Chinese tradition. It symbolizes ‘genius in obscurity’ (5), doubtless after the rather less categorical observation of Lao-tse that, ‘Hence, the chosen one wears coarse garments, but in his breast he hides a precious stone’—by allusion to the pearl hidden inside its oyster.

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