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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

He's the guy who said he wasn't sure whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

It's said that when his wife died his friend found him drumming and singing. When asked why he was behaving inappropriately, he said. "if I weren't singing I would cry, and then I would have forgotten that all things are constantly transitioning into something else."

There's also a certain amount of philosophical one-up-manship.