Sweatin' to the oldies

[Glenn Scheper]

        This deserves repeating en toto.
        Only funny that jolly sent it...

> Table of Contents

> Book X

> Socrates -
> GLAUCON

> 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.

> 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.

> 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.
> .......

... for Jolly is like a tiger who appears to have mastered
some rhetoric, and can outdo many. He has climbed near the
top of the crapheap. But there is a Lion in the jungle, of
which Jolly has no knowledge. Socrates' works belie he has
direct gnosis: he is a metanoiac, metamorphosized, able to
know the true meanings buried in but a smattering of works.
Plato, while quoting Socarates, attracted me. But as Plato
begins to reason for himself, he shows no more isomorphism
to the domain of truth, trapped in his seamless simulacrum.
Such a one is Jolly too, but prey or to disregard by Lions.
He should, in fact, review my posts on how to fuck himself.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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