Maybe it would be apt in any age. ;-) Remember that Socrates and Christ wrote nothing, and when it was brought to Plato's attention that one of his students had been teaching his beliefs in Syracuse, Plato wrote back to his interlocutor--I believe it was the tyrant Dion--that that was strange, since he had written nothing on the subject. And, of course, there is the modern scholar, Pierre Hadot, who argues that philosophy is a "way of life [and of living, according to the Taoist]," and "not of writing" or "of thinking." Of course, this is all out of phase with our modern world. M.W. Poirier ----- On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Michael Norman wrote: > At 12:01 AM 3/26/2007, M.W. Poirier wrote: > >In my opinion it must be the same > >with the men of old. All that was worth handing on, died with them; the > >rest, they put into their books. That is why I said that what you were > >reading was the lees and scum of bygone men. > > In that case, Maben, maybe it's apt in our age that we write in > ephemeral electrons. > > michael norman >