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...faucet, all of that sludgy orange-brown water comes out at first. But if you leave the faucet running, eventually the water starts to run clearly. That’s really part of the writing process, learning how to get to the clear water.5.FM: So are you like Plato in that you think ability and knowledge are already in you and that it’s only a matter of removing the crap in the way?BJ: I do think you have to clear away the crap, but I don’t think that everything you write is already...
...Philosopher’s Apprentice”takes a middle-of-the-road approachby dividing the cover in half. Inthe bottom left corner is what looks likean early printing press title page for a Platonictreatise. This apprentice must actuallybe a legitimate philosopher—he’sread Plato. On the upper right, it lookslike a Renaissance artist started makingout with his nude model! Or has hisstatue come to life? Although the alabaster-white woman has fiery red humanhair, she’s without nipples. The paintingbehind them, though, looks rather impressionist.The confusion! What timeperiod will this work actually take...
...Buena Park, Calif, head of the North American Swing Club Association, believes the economy is probably the major factor in the recent decline of swinging, a euphemism for mate swapping and group sex. Attendance at swing parties, he says, dropped 15% to 30% in early 1983, and attendance at Plato's Retreat, a Manhattan sex parlor, was down 40% in the same period...
...They believed that the world of space and time and matter is messed up, but remains basically good, and God will eventually sort it out and put it right again. Belief in that goodness is absolutely essential to Christianity, both theologically and morally. But Greek-speaking Christians influenced by Plato saw our cosmos as shabby and misshapen and full of lies, and the idea was not to make it right, but to escape it and leave behind our material bodies. The church at its best has always come back toward the Hebrew view, but there have been times when...
Specialist teams can help, and few have a better record than Hines' Young Guns. The team's past charges include not just Hamilton and Plato, but also F1 drivers Anthony Davidson and David Coulthard, and McLaren test driver Gary Paffett. Hines is no less pumped about his current crop: Young Gun Oliver Rowland, 15, clinched the British title in his class in mid-September. His gritty style - after being relegated to the back of the grid at a recent race, Rowland sliced his way through the field to win - prompted McLaren to sign him to the Formula One team...