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He [Zhuang Zhou] loved to pillory the Confucian thinkers for their proud claims to wisdom and superior rectitude; he teased them with amusing stories about Confucius which are on a par with Aesoplike tales about the “Spirit of the River” and “General Clouds”—the point of many of the stories being that Confucius was really a Taoist in disguise.
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Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, 12th cent. Fables of a Jewish Aesop, tr. from the Fox fables of [the author] by Moses Hadas. Illus. with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. 1967. 233p. illus. Columbia, $5.95. / Predominantly Aesoplike and Aesop-derived fables written by a rabbi of medieval France.
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This is not to suggest that the stories are told for explicitly moralistic reasons. The telling of a particular story is not typically followed by a specific, Aesoplike, “moralistic-commentary.”
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