stackyFACTSUnlike the canonical texts that give you a clear story about walking on water and giving out bread, this text is literally just a list of one hundred and fourteen cryptic quotes.
Unlike the canonical texts that give you a clear story about walking on water and giving out bread, this text is literally just a list of one hundred and fourteen cryptic quotes. There is no plot, no climax, and no context. It reads like the wildly confusing notes of a philosophy student who forgot to write down the actual lecture. It was buried in the dirt for centuries, probably because no one could figure out what it actually meant.
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