Somebody told me somebody said something once. He told me once, but I don’t know how many times the person who said the thing said what he said. “Learning at it’s easiest is difficult.” Socrates said that, or at least that’s what “History of Government” professor said he said. I’ve never bothered to verify the [...] [...]
At what price, memory? Ask the amnesiac. Have that conversation with an aphasic. We can reminisce about such things with our loved-ones, though strangers we are to them as they fade-to-death with Alzheimer’s disease. [...]
and so, he did. I’m not sure who he was that let the fire fall, not like he had much of a choice in the matter. And he couldn’t let the fire do anything but burn. He couldn’t let the fire fall. He had to make the fire fall by artfully coaxing beyond a cliff’s [...] [...]