The Plato Papers (2007)
“Do you see the way they flock towards him when he appears?Madrigal: Only because he is as small as they are. Yet soon enough they will reach the age when they must paint their features upon the Wall. Do you recall when you and I and Plato took our sticks of coloured light and traced our outlines upon the stones?Sparkler: Did Sidonia paint herself holding a lamp?Madrigal: I cannot remember. But I do recall that she erased some of her face. Yet, even so, everyone could tell by her features from w...hat parish she came.Sparkler: And then Plato depicted himself wearing the cap of feathers—Madrigal: The cap of the city fool.Sparkler: And holding out a script of glass.Madrigal: He might have been anticipating his own fate.Sparkler: Or, as he would say, his fate had happened already.Madrigal: That is precisely the kind of thing he tells the children. Oh, there is the daughter of Ornatus. Look. She is laughing. No doubt Plato is talking once more about Mouldwarp.Sparkler: But where is the humour in these ancient practices?MoreLess
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