RE: What can and cannot be written.

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Boy! Those were the days, weren't they!?

-----Original Message----- From: flash

"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.