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What does it mean?
Ts'ui Pe's book and labyrinth were intended as a single work, not two separate ones.
In plain terms
He planned one project as both a book and a maze.
What can you take from it?
Complex ideas can unify separate concepts.

Where it applies

  • writing
  • planning
  • reading

Putting it to work

  • unify concepts
  • design projects
  • rethink plans

Questions to consider

  • What can be two things at once?
  • How do you design?

Another view

Others might still see them as distinct forms.

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