Handout and Reminder: Paper #1 due Monday by 5pm

INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS INTO YOUR PAPER

“They say they are happy, but I am not happy and I am not unhappy either. Ultimately, do they have happiness or not? I regard actionless action as worthy of being called happiness, though the ordinary people regard it as a burden. It is said: Perfect happiness is not happiness, perfect glory is not glory” (150).

I.      INTRODUCE QUOTES

In The Book of Chuang Tzu, the author writes…

In an important passage in The Book of Chuang Tzu

The most interesting moment in The Book of Chuang Tzu occurs when…

II.  CITE PAGE NUMBER AND/OR AUTHOR

(150) OR (Palmer 220) –the editor of the book

NOT (The Book), OR (Chuang Tzu), OR (the author)

III.           RESPOND TO THE QUOTE

In The Book of Chuang Tzu, the author writes, “They say they are happy, but I am not happy and I am not unhappy either. Ultimately, do they have happiness or not? I regard actionless action as worthy of being called happiness, though the ordinary people regard it as a burden. It is said: Perfect happiness is not happiness, perfect glory is not glory” (150). This is important because… OR Another way to understand this is…

IV.            WORKS CITED PAGE

The Book of Chuang Tzu. Trnsl. Palmer, Breuilly. New York:

Penguin Books, 1996.

“The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor.” The Tale of Sinuhe and Other

        Ancient Egyptian Poems. Trnsl. Parkinson. New York: Oxford

        University Press, 2009.