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'meta' denotes 'after' or 'above' : 'above' is a preceding condition but 'after' is a consequential postion, but in either case it represents a shadow, it can come before or after, it can be representative or it can be something different, to consider it a 'derived' layer, it sounds consequential, but if the derivations are the essentials of the piece, it can be a derivative in the mathematical sense, this derivative is magnifying the essential quality of the motion [thought is motion], and therefore seems less consequential and more causal, with the result being the opacity of characterizations tinted by time, characterizations containing before, after, preceding, causing, etc... . in the stories it is the frame story : the red chamber dream: it is a dream, and the dream like condition is from which the incarnate, dust condition is derived, the earth is dust relative to the heaven of the dream, the weeping of dai-yu is the pain of her life water's incarceration, the death of the flowers, and the falling of the petals