Radical 页

10 strokes

顧

uphill 厄 (566b) + page 页 (477) = attend to 顾

Notice that the hook on “hardship” (566a) in the left-hand side of this character has turned into a “barb”. You’ve seen this happening before (see for example Character 228) and it will happen again (see 570a).

[顾客 (509) gùkè customer, client]

(A reclusive author lives on a hill) the publisher struggles uphill with the pages of the author’s book, so the author can attend to the corrections. / But the dwarf doesn’t mind as he is a budding author himself and regards the recluse as his guru.