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Here is a screenshot of _English Through Pictures_ p207 that mentions an ancient Chinese poem or thinking about our approach to time.
This one page with a simple drawing and using a limited number of English words offers the same sort of thought as a few dense paragraphs in William Empson's _Seven Types of Ambiguity_.
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> From 1942 to 1944, working as a colleague of #WilliamEmpson's, he produced a series of broadcasts to India written in #BasicEnglish, trying to use its programmed simplicity, as a Tribune article put it,

'as a sort of corrective to the oratory of statesmen and publicists.'

Only during the last year of the war did he write 'Politics and the #EnglishLanguage,' insisting that the defense of English language has nothing to do with the setting up of a #StandardEnglish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_english#cite_note-17

NEW CORN
> Swiftly the years, beyond recall.
> Solemn the stillness of this fair morning.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42290/42290-h/42290-h.htm

On p207 of English Through Picture book three the simplified version is
> Quickly the years fly past forever
> Here forever is this spring morning

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