by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | PL
Plato’s Probity Paradox “But in fact he [Socrates] concludes (a) that potential guardians should imitate only good men … and (b) that they should imitate as little as possible.” ~ Penelope Murray, Plato on Poetry, 5 “To thine own self be true” ~ Polonius If...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | ED, PL, SO
Pigs Would Fly if Their Sties Were Noble Poor Socrates. He thought that if the young Were wrapped in images of beauty, they Would take good in and then could climb each rung Of rightness. Lovelinesses would convey Them up and straight to healthiness of soul. Their...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | AE, ES, ID, PE, PO
The Triune Potency According to Penelope Murray, “Socrates . . . . says, ‘any story or poem . . . narrates things past, present or future’ ”. ~ Plato on Poetry, 4 We want a poem that is full of now, And past, and future, full. We want intense Severity of...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | BE, JA, JO, PA
The Threat and Weightiness Held in that Silver Divination Cup “let this cup pass from me” ~ Matthew 26:39 The brothers tore their robes. Radiation Of fatal force came throbbing from the cup. Death and doom were theirs, not mediation. The knife blade fate demanded...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | LE, MU, VE
Donna Leon I’m tired of Donna, not of Venice, though. Brunetti is still likeable enough And Paola’s improved a bit. The slow Starts to the crime plots make it tough For readers used to fiction of this kind, Detective novels. Some might think,...
