Nicolas Strand

Dromena

“but the fact is that whether one tumbles into a little diving-pool or plump into the great sea he swims all the same.” “By all means.” “Then we, too, must swim and try to escape out of the sea of argument in the hope that either some dolphin will take us on its back or some other desperate rescue.”

Plato, Republic 5.453d, trans. Paul Shorey, vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library 237 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930).

the reader must forgive my jocundity, also that I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, Kierkegaard’s Writings 2 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 441 (Supplement: draft of the preface, Pap. III B 3, 1840–41).

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