Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Solon, 10.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
“While any situation could be used as an image of any other, no thing could be an image of another—especially two things as complicated as two people. And to use them as such was to abuse them and delude oneself—that it was the coherence and ability of things (especially people) to be their unique and individual selves that allowed the malleability and richness of images to occur at all.”
— Samuel R. Delany, book Tales of Nevèrÿon
Section 2 (pp. 102-103)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
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