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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (49419)	8/6/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I was in Jacob Klein's last Plato preceptorial before he died. He was lucid, although clearly fading, and we met at his house in the afternoon to discuss, essentially, the book he was working on, a commentary on the Thaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman.(We threw in the Ion for the heck of it.) He had the odd habit, as we were going over the dialogues (Cornford's translations with his emendations). When he thought that Socrates was being ironic, he would say gleefully, and with some excitement, "He is smiling, he is smiling." One got the impression not only of clairvoyance (there were plenty of instances when it was not clear that Socrates was being ironic, and yet Klein had no doubt), but that Klein thought it was the cutest thing, the way that Socrates would "cut up".......