on an easel on the stage, the title -- ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αá½Ï„οῖσιν á¼Î¼Ïαίνουσιν, ἕτεÏα καὶ ἕτεÏα ὕδατα á¼Ï€Î¹ÏÏεῖ. Different waters bathe those who step into the same river. --Heraclitus of Ephysus. The spot fades and the placard is removed; enter Cratylus stage right. Lights come up stage right on Cratylus and gradually on the rest of his colleagues, who are standing like statues. Each (except Cratylus) has a placard identifying the character's name at his feet. Cr. kicks them away one by one as he points at the actor -- "waking him up".
posted morning of Saturday, December 6th, 2014
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(voiceover) ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αá½Ï„οῖσιν á¼Î¼Ïαίνουσιν, ἕτεÏα καὶ ἕτεÏα ὕδατα á¼Ï€Î¹ÏÏεῖ. This is vastly more convincing than Plato's paraphrase "One cannot step into the same river twice" -- indeed Heraclitus' phrasing is convincing enough to come across as an adage or triviality. Assuming I am reading the Greek correctly (I know, a big assumption -- but I think this agrees with Adamson's translation, and with his take on Heraclitus) of course it is different waters from time to time -- the literal sense of this metaphor is much more obviously true than that of the paraphrase. But the metaphorical sense is exactly the same. So it brings the metaphor into focus almost jarringly.
posted morning of December 6th, 2014 by The Modesto Kid
PARMENIDES OF ELEA: Multiplicity and change are illusion. There is no Being and Time, there is only Being. It is impossible to speak of change.
posted morning of December 6th, 2014 by The Modesto Kid
HERACLITUS (Pointedly stirring his kykeon)): So why do things so obviously happen?
posted morning of December 6th, 2014 by The Modesto Kid
