The great desire of any writer is to write a book for the ages, that will forever explain the way things are, but that's not possible, and no one should ever try. That was my mistake. And I'm sorry.
The 18th century poet William Cowper wrote a poem called The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, which immortalized the phrase, I am monarch of all I survey, a line referenced later by Dickens in the Pickwick Papers.
As an example of how to live by you, or how to flow, Zhuangzi presents, in the inner chapters of the work which has come down to us bearing his name, a parable of a humble worker.