AN INAUSPICIOUS END
Li Bo, considered one of China’s greatest poets, led a wandering life, briefly enjoying spells of court employment. He was a lover of beauty and wine and met his death appropriately. According to popular tradition, he was out in a boat one evening. Trying to embrace the reflection of the moon, which shone full on the water, he fell in and drowned. The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, Editor, p. 354.
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