There are essentially two different attitudes toward the Outer and Miscellaneous chapters of the Zhuangzi. The first emphasizes their disorder and miscellaneousness and fails to take into account a certain sort of consistency among them.

[…] the Lances flew briskly at one another; one of which went thorow my Lamber, and scratch’d me […]

Human societies have effloresced to levels of extreme complexity because their members have the intelligence and flexibility to play roles of virtually any degree of specification, and to switch them as the occasion demands.

She saw his fingers uncrisp, then grip the shelf again.