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東張西覷 Looking East And West
行者看見，笑道：「八戒，老牛去了。」那獃子漠然不知，土地亦不能曉，一個個東張西覷，只在積雷山前後亂找。行者看见，笑道：「八戒，老牛去了。」那呆子漠然不知，土地亦不能晓，一个个东张西觑，只在积雷山前后乱找。
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行者看見，笑道：「八戒，老牛去了。」
行者看见，笑道：「八戒，老牛去了。」
Pilgrim saw it and laughed: "Eight Rules, the old bull has gone."
看 is kàn, to look, against the kān of keeping watch that this edition admitted one chapter ago at 看守門庭.
那獃子漠然不知，土地亦不能曉，一個個東張西覷，只在積雷山前後亂找。
那呆子漠然不知，土地亦不能晓，一个个东张西觑，只在积雷山前后乱找。
The Idiot had no notion of it and the local god could not tell either; the two of them stared east and peered west, hunting about at random before and behind Mount Piled Thunder.
The comedy is at the expense of both: the Great Sage saw the change and neither of the others did, so the two of them are searching the ground for something in the air. 覷 is qù, to peer or squint at, and 東張西覷 is a variant of the commoner 東張西望 with the sharper verb. 漠然 is blankly, without a notion.
The chapter's manner drops abruptly. Three battle poems and a broken gate give way to two figures standing in a field looking for something they cannot see, and the joke is at their expense: the Great Sage watched the swan go up, and the other two are searching the ground.
漠然不知 and 亦不能曉 are put in parallel so that neither is spared. Eight Rules has no notion and the local god cannot tell either — and the local god has been the competent one for three passages. What follows requires an eye for transformation, which is the one faculty in this party that belongs to nobody but the Great Sage.