being, Imaginary Beings. ...but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Part II, Book V, Pro and Contra Chapter IV, Rebellion, 1880

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Ivan Karamazov to his brother Alyosha:

“By the way,” Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother’s words, “a man I met recently in Moscow told me about the crimes committed by Turks and Circassians in Bulgaria through fear of an uprising of the Slavs. 

They burn villages, murder, outrage women and children, they nail their prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and then hang them - all sorts of things you can’t imagine.

People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Part II, Book V, Pro and Contra Chapter IV, Rebellion, 1880

Jorge Luis Borges wrote and edited the Book of Imaginary Beings in 1957 as the original Spanish Manual de zoología fantástica, or Handbook of Fantastic Zoology, expanding it in 1967 and 1969 to the final El libro de los seres imaginarios. The English edition, created in collaboration with translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni, contains descriptions of 120 mythical beasts from folklore and literature.
台灣一翻譯為《想像的動物》這是誤會 其中有類似植物 如 mandrake
傳統的說法 為 《妖物誌》
being 是 "生物"

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being (PERSON) Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
a person or thing that exists or the state of existing:
A nuclear war would kill millions of living beings.
Strange beings from outer space are still a popular subject for sci-fi films.
We do not know exactly how life first came into being (= began to exist.)

be (EXIST) Show phonetics
verb [I] being, was were, been
to exist or live:
FORMAL Such terrible suffering should never be.
OLD USE OR LITERARY By the time the letter reached them their sister had ceased to be (= died).

being (BE) Show phonetics

present participle of be

be・ing

━━ v. beの現在分詞［動名詞］.
━━ a. 現在の (for the time ～ 当分の間）.
━━ n. 存在, 実在; 生存; 生物, 人; 本質, 本体.
bring [call] into being　生じさせる.
come into being　生じる, 生まれる.
in being　存在する, 現存の.
the Supreme Being　神.