Endnotes To "Take It Or Leave It"



(line 5) your Mother Mother Earth.

(line 6) your Father Something like God, Buddha, Zeus...

(line 7) The wind penetrates Hexagram 57 of the I Ching, Sun (The Gentle, The Penetration of the Wind), which is the trigram Wind/Wood (a broken line, then two solid lines above it) one on top of the other. It basically denotes being unable to influence a situation directly and having to do it through the force of one's character.

(line 8) The sun's under your shoes Hexagram 36 of the I Ching, Ming-I (The Darkening Of The Light), which is the trigram The Sun (a solid line, then a broken line above it, then a solid line above that) under the trigram Earth (three broken lines). It basically denotes having to endure a reign of evil.

(line 22) What did the captain of the Californian say? Stanley Lord, who commanded the passenger/cargo ship Californian which was near the Titanic on the night it hit an iceberg and sank, spent the rest of his life paying for his failure to properly respond to the Titanic's distress signals.



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