Anodyne
Saturday, November 04, 2017
 

Rock Surface Tree, 2017

(after Wall, 2007)

"'Then,' I said, 'as for the man of a different character, the more contemptible he is, the more will he imitate everything without discrimination and think nothing beneath him, so that he will attempt in sober earnest, and before a large audience, to imitate everything, as we said a moment ago - thunder and the noise of the wind, and of hail, and of axles and of pulleys; the notes of trumpets and flutes, and fifes and all manner of instruments; the barking of dogs and the bleating of sheep, and the cries of birds. And so his manner of speech will all involve imitation of voice and form.'" 

(Plato, Republic, trans. A.D. Lindsay)
- posted by cjb @ 7:23 PM


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