Guiguzi, China’s first treatise on Rhetoric, A critical translation and commentary, translated by Hui Wu

鬼谷子

Guiguzi

鬼 = ghost/ demon

谷 = valley

子 = teacher/ master

Guiguzi = Master of the Ghost Valley

鬼谷子

I am Queen Anne, of whom ’tis said
I’m chiefly famed for being dead.
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, She sits in the sun,
As fair as a lily, as brown as a bun.

the movement from life to memory