WikiLeaks has released the draft text of a chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, a multilateral free-trade treaty currently being negotiated in secret by 12 Pacific Rim nations.
For centuries the text existed only as a chapter of the Liji ("Collection of Rituals"), one of the Wujing ("Five Classics") of Confucianism.
The fifth section turns to an intellectual divergence between generalist and technical specialist knowledge through the categorization of texts in a chapter of the dynastic history of the Han dynasty (Han shu).
The passage in the Mozi occurs in its "Fei Ru" or "Condemn the Ru" chapter of the text, a chapter noteworthy for its ad hominem attacks on Confucius and his followers.
Tucked away in the eighth chapter of the text is footnote 351, which corresponds to an anodyne-sounding sentence about the extent to which "mitigating factors" might affect a pastor's handling of certain personal predicaments — such as divorce, followed by remarriage — that are considered sinful.
WikiLeaks has added to the White House's problems around a trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim countries, publishing a chapter of a draft text which had been secret.
With "Democracy Before America," the founders, the presidency, "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom," the judiciary, elections, the media, "The Future of Democracy" and "The Rest of the World" each rating a chapter, the main text's affectation of seriousness, which occasionally smuggles in the real thing, keeps dissipating into bonkers digressions, choleric sputters and shrugs of despair.
The conclusions to be drawn from this argument were, however, only to be revealed in chapter four of the text.
Starting with the first chapter of the main text ("Transcendental Aesthetic") can feel like running headfirst into a brick wall.
A couple of years ago I had seen and much admired Elevator Repair Service's "Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)," which brought the complete text of a chapter of that Faulkner novel to theatrical life.
