A passage from Plato's lost dialogue
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I'm hard at work translating a difficult passage related to a numerical system devised for categorizing barbarian women. The text seems to degenerate into a demented fantasia and may be a late addition to the manuscript, though perhaps its uncharacteristic traits are indicative of Hoydides being an earlier entry in the corpus, as it does not share the careful philosophical constructions of later dialogues such as Philebus. However, it could bear some relation to Critias; the numerical categorization proposed by Mateus and derided by Socrates et al, and the following hallucinatory fantasia may play an analogously allegorical role to that of Atlantis in Critias.
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I have never loved a thread more than this one. I want to have its babies.eumaas wrote:I'm hard at work translating a difficult passage related to a numerical system devised for categorizing barbarian women. The text seems to degenerate into a demented fantasia and may be a late addition to the manuscript, though perhaps its uncharacteristic traits are indicative of Hoydides being an earlier entry in the corpus, as it does not share the careful philosophical constructions of later dialogues such as Philebus. However, it could bear some relation to Critias; the numerical categorization proposed by Mateus and derided by Socrates et al, and the following hallucinatory fantasia may play an analogously allegorical role to that of Atlantis in Critias.
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"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: A passage from Plato's lost dialogue
Socrates just doesn't get the logic behind it.eumaas wrote:I'm hard at work translating a difficult passage related to a numerical system devised for categorizing barbarian women. The text seems to degenerate into a demented fantasia and may be a late addition to the manuscript, though perhaps its uncharacteristic traits are indicative of Hoydides being an earlier entry in the corpus, as it does not share the careful philosophical constructions of later dialogues such as Philebus. However, it could bear some relation to Critias; the numerical categorization proposed by Mateus and derided by Socrates et al, and the following hallucinatory fantasia may play an analogously allegorical role to that of Atlantis in Critias.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Mateus never ceases to amuse.
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"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Sunday morning.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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But I want it now. :(eumaas wrote:Sunday morning.
Re: A passage from Plato's lost dialogue
The Hoyic dialect of Ancient Greek is very difficult.cretin wrote:But I want it now. :(eumaas wrote:Sunday morning.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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Had no internet so I couldn't consult references, so I'm afraid I'll have to delay the post.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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This is the funniest shit ever. And I'm only barely drunk.
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I want it so bad.
Re: A passage from Plato's lost dialogue
We've all heard that one before.cretin wrote:I want it so bad.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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They stock this at the grocery:
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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I WANT MORE TRANSLATIONS!
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"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: A passage from Plato's lost dialogue
I might just start it up again now that the gag order on my work has been lifted on appeal.Wolter wrote:I WANT MORE TRANSLATIONS!
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
Re: A passage from Plato's lost dialogue
Noticed last night that the originals for the fragments weren't here, so...
(11:43:13 PM) creets: don't make excuses for Minotaur.
(11:43:26 PM) eumaas: Hey
(11:43:35 PM) eumaas: I'm no friend of Minotaur, trust me
(11:43:50 PM) eumaas: But you can't expect Minotaur not to get his own when you aren't putting out.
(11:44:53 PM) Flex0r_P [Mibbit@mib-45AE9DA7.hsd1.co.comcast.net] entered the room.
(11:45:15 PM) Flex0r_P: I believe I read something about sex with thundercats...
Cretea: You should not plead the Minotaur's case, O Socrates.
Socrates: I assure you that I do not number the Minotaur among my friends, Cretea, but you cannot expect the Minotaur to restrain his passions when you do not yield to them any longer.
Flexides (entering the room): I heard rumor of intercourse with lion-men imbued with Zeus's thunder.
(02:19:36 AM) eumaas: Matey is going to New Orleans
(02:19:50 AM) Flex0r_P: Jesus, wasn't Katrina enough,
Socrates: Mateus is traveling to Thespiæ.
Flexides: By Zeus, was not its razing by Xerxes punishment enough?
<matedog> fuck me, I have to go find steering wheel fluid for my lame friends
Mateus: I must away to Eleusis with fatty grease for friend Crito's chariot wheel.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy