Those who can’t pay for the purity of form tickets have to sit up in the balcony with interpretation and reproduction. Because turning our minds in the direction of reason and knowledge can be bought.
According to the comic, probably dollars. According to Craig, Rupees (hopefully the kind that can be found in jars and patches of tall grass). This one would say it takes the price of a semester course in philosophy, or the time it takes to read a book. A book about, you know, grasshoppers.
May 25, 2010
“Buddy, that world of forms, you have no idea…”
-Plato (attributed)
May 25, 2010
This comic is ideal.
May 25, 2010
Cat and Girl is a recapitulation of the cave, by other means.
May 25, 2010
No fair she peeked, oops now he’s peeking. (Actually I had to look it up.)
May 25, 2010
Aren’t they supposed to be tied up?
May 25, 2010
are they watching reruns of Don Quixote?
May 25, 2010
michael wins!
May 26, 2010
Those who can’t pay for the purity of form tickets have to sit up in the balcony with interpretation and reproduction. Because turning our minds in the direction of reason and knowledge can be bought.
May 26, 2010
@Major English: With what currency can purity of form and the requisite understanding to look upon it be bought with?
May 26, 2010
@Bob
Rupees.
May 27, 2010
Craig, you Sexy Sadie!
May 27, 2010
According to the comic, probably dollars. According to Craig, Rupees (hopefully the kind that can be found in jars and patches of tall grass). This one would say it takes the price of a semester course in philosophy, or the time it takes to read a book. A book about, you know, grasshoppers.
May 27, 2010
What a gyp
June 7, 2010
And the moral of the story is… if you chew popcorn loudly, you will not hear a sound from a movie!