Sweatin' to the oldies

[Glenn Fuller]

jolly wrote:

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> Socrates - GLAUCON
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> Of he many excellences which I perceive in the order of our State, 
> there is none which upon reflection pleases me better than the rule 
> about poetry.
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> To what do you refer?
> To the rejection of imitative poetry, which certainly ought not to be 
> received; as I see far more clearly now that the parts of the soul 
> have been distinguished.
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> What do you mean?
> Speaking in confidence, for I should not like to have my words 
> repeated to the tragedians and the rest of the imitative tribe --but I 
> do not mind saying to you, that all poetical imitations are ruinous to 
> the understanding of the hearers, and that the knowledge of their true 
> nature is the only antidote to them. .......
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