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about the eunuch and his hitting of the
bat—with what and as it sat on what they signify that he struck
it. For these things too equivocate, and it is impossible to conceive
firmly1 any one of them to be or not to be or both or
neither.” “Do you know what to do with them,
then?” said I, “and can you find a better place to put
them than that midway between existence or essence and the not-to-be? For we
shall surely not discover a darker region than not-being2 that they
should still more not be,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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