…the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light…—Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
Light and dark
This reminds me of a question we considered in Happiness class on Thursday: What do we think about Nabokov's "common sense" view of our predicament, our "cradle above the abyss," our "brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness"? And also of "the truest vision of life I know, that bird in the Venerable Bede that flutters from the dark into a lighted hall, and after a while flutters out again into the dark"...
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