@@> Plato's seventh letter (no mention of the first 6)
 
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  Quite by accident, the Plato Anthology book fell open flat on the
  floor. As I picked it up and turned it over, I was looking at his
  "seventh letter", some pages I hadn't even noticed were in the
  book. Sometimes as a tease, I let destiny play with my head ....so
  I sat back and read it in such spirit (never realized a letter
  could be so long!). Reading the "letter" gave me some better feel
  for a Plato/Socrates* as a person. In fact, I wish I had read the
  letter first as you get an "essential" Plato flavor without all the
  contrivance and "cutsy" puppets..............
 
  It also had some extra meaning as I had visited the Eastern Shore
  of Sicily in 1988 and remember well pressing the palm of my hand
  on a Doric temple column and feeling that "lump-in-throat" magic!
 
    ...just a mini happenstance I thought novel enough to
    share...........
 
   * It is often difficult to separate Plato from his teacher
     as if their mentor-bond allowed a very ""special"" fusion
     (two complete minds seemingly to share a single body).  I
     wondered if history had other samples where one mind
     so pervasively entered another. Plato, talking on another
     issue about someone else, even mentions the possibility,
     as *seeming* having thought about it in his own circumstance-
 
     "...and a life lived together, suddenly a light as it were,
     is kindles in one soul by a flame that leaps to it from
     another, and thereafter sustains itself."
                  [7th Letter, to friends and family of Dion 341d]
 
     The poetry of it appealed to me....
                                                   .@@ ... Dave
 
  P.S. Forgot to mention... Enjoyed the "Ecclesiastes 12" words and
       passed them on to some old birds like myself (65 next month!).
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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