The Piraeus Mystery

[poliphilo]

I was at a loss for something to read yesterday afternoon, reached for the nearest bookcase and came away with Plato's Republic.

I'm liking Socrates. He's so modern. So laid-back, so deceptively cool- when really he's literature's first detective, hunting down the truth, setting traps, probing away with all those seemingly innocent questions.

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[artkouros.livejournal.com]

And he lived happily ever after.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

So I understand. Didn't he retire to Sussex and keep bees?

[ccord.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. There's a bit of dialogue about bees in one of the later books of the volume, book seven or eight or so; the inspiration had to come from someplace.