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28.The Grand Augur, in his ceremonial robes, approachedthe shambles and thus addressed the pigs: “How can youobject to die? I shall fatten you for three months. I shalldiscipline myself for ten days and fast for three. I shallstrew fine grass, and place you bodily upon a carvedsacrificial dish. Does not this satisfy you?"Then, speaking from the pigs' point of view, hecontinued: “It is better, perhaps, after all, to live on branand escape the shambles. . . ."“But then," added he, speaking from his own point ofview, “to enjoy honour when alive one would readily dieon a war-shield or in the headsman's basket."So he rejected the pigs' point of view and adopted hisown point of view. In what sense, then, was he differentfrom the pigs?29.When Yang Tzu went to the Sung State, he passed anight at an inn. The innkeeper had: two concubines--