Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.
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VII, 36
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"Ode to the Goose" http://www.chinese-poems.com/lbw1.html (《咏鹅》) <br class="br">Variant translation: <br class="br">Geese, geese, geese,<br>Curl necks and sing.<br>White feathers floating on the green,<br>They swim with red webbed feet. <br class="br">"On Geese", as translated by YeShell in How To Write Classical Chinese Poems (Lulu Press, 2015)