Sand without mortar
Words have an elusive quality. They are not facts to be known with full certainty or mathematical entities to be derived from reason. They are drawbridges, always turning, always shifting access and passage. Good discourse always requires more than a juxtaposition of words.
The Roman emperor Caligula wasn’t impressed with Seneca the Younger’s epigrammati…
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