Re: What can and cannot be written.

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≪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."≫

"Hegasias having asked him [Diogenes of Sinope] to lend him one of his
writings, he [Diogenes] said, 'You are a fool, Hegasias; you do not
choose painted figs, but real ones; and yet you pass over the true
training and would apply yourself to written rules.'" Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of Eminent Philosphers, Diogenes [of Sinope], Book VI, ca. line
48. Another prosepctive pupil of Diogenes was advised to 'throw your
money into the sea and live as I do.' ibid., VI line 87.