豫 → 渙

Commentary

Thunder breaks from the earth, but what emerges is shameful endurance. Swallowing ugliness with little sense of shame, faceless yet headed somewhere — the figure tolerates degradation while pressing forward. Resources dwindle and diminish daily, wasting away through slow attrition. The verse captures the grim momentum of decline accepted: someone who has lost dignity but continues moving, each day smaller than the last. From Enthusiasm to Dispersion, the transformation dissolves what little remains. Wind moves over water, scattering everything. Dispersion's ancient king built temples and made offerings to the supreme deity — reconstituting meaning from scattered fragments. But the verse's subject has nothing left to gather; the dispersion is total, and what enthusiasm once animated now dissolves into diminishing returns.