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胸藏邱壑，城市不异山林；兴寄烟霞，阎浮有如蓬岛。梧桐为植物中清品，而形家独忌之，且谓梧桐大如斗，主人往外走……俗言之不足据，类如此夫。——张潮：《幽梦影》<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

In possession of a lively imagination, one can live in the cities and feel like one is in the mountains, and following one’s fancies with the clouds, one can convert the dark continent of the south into fairy isles. A great wrong has been committed on the plane tree by the necromancers who regard it as bringing bad luck, saying that when a plane tree grows in the yard, its owner will live abroad…..Most superstitions are like that.