DrStormyDaniels

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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
It may well be that “Socrates, the mouthpiece character created by Plato" was more real, platonically speaking, than the historical entity that went by that name.
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
In the ninth book of the Republic, Socrates casually describes the mass of human beings as things without even the dignity of animals, characteristically they are " bent over their tables, they feed like cattle with stooping heads and
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Addendum: Bach's musical sentences are even more inspiring than Joyce's prosody, try the rhetoric of the cello suites, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbH3JYfRjOQ - (this is a good recording, especia
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
"Dip him in the river who loves water" - translated for sentence watchers : "Read Ulysses"
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Dante is incredibly hard to read, maybe he is worth it, I admit for myself I do not know.
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Oscar Wilde took it that way as well, if you value his opinion.
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Interestingly, "those who kept their rage inside at all time, instead of expressing it" would come very close to Freud's general sense of repression, inhibition, and Melancholia. Thus depression. And it wouldn't chime ba
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Dante, one of the harshest imaginations to ever write itself into a poem believed that, for instance, depression was a sin meriting eternal punishment by drowning over and over in a pool of filth and kept from rising to the surface by the p
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Dante adapted for Disney