suppose you had curiosity but that was as far as you might go ... suppose that is you had the fatal kind of curiosity that went as far as it went to get the shortest answer but no further ... looking through the window it sees an attractive sight but must hurry on into the night ... listening outside the door it hears the truth outright but scurries on to the next spot without a pause to make a note ... till door after door and window after window the pictures and the sound flow by as if they were frames on a spinning wheel ... or in a film splattered on a screen ... the voyeur audience incapable of participation and at the end unable even to react loses two lives each ... the one on the screen so far out of touch ... the one in their seat alone in the dark of the crowded theater and a bright day filled with saints and sinners outside ... it's a shadowy world inside with bright colors that fade on the wall ... a passion you can make believe you share on screen and off with the idea of truth the beauty of it ... anything can be made to look true in slow motion but this makes slow motion look good in the real time we lose to watch it
plato, the republic, bk 7, the allegory of the cave
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