Reading 5D - Now look over here carefully. Can you see this little door and this little house?
- I see. What is this thing, father.
- This is the thinking-building (think-tank/thinkery) of wise souls. Inside live wise men, and when they speak they persuade their students that the heaven is an oven, and this oven is around us, and we are the coals. These men persuade their students teaching them all the time getting a great deal of money. And by Zeus no one of them will stop receiving a great deal of money.
- But what do the men teach? What will young men learn, being students.
- The students will learn arguments.
- What arguments do you mean, father?
- What? I'm speaking about the just and the unjust argument.
- SO these arguments the students will learn.
- Yes, by Zeus, and moreover, in the lawcourts, they will always defeat their adversaries.
- These men are who? What the men's name.
- I don't know the name. But sophists are real gentlemen.
- Urrgghh. Terrible I know. You are speaking about the hail and the unshod, the wretched Socrates.
- tut tut be quiet. But you will you not listen.
- I will listen. What will you say to me.

- But as I was saying the men inside have two arguments: the just and the unjust. WHy then do you not go in as a student? For thus we will put a stop to our debts.
- What will I learn?
- The unjust argument. FOr the unjust argument will destroy our , but the just one not. SO thus the creditors will take none of the debts. Why do you not go in to the reflectory of the very highest of men.
- I into the reflectory? No by Dionysus, I will indeed not do this. Not today am I going in, nor tomorrow will I go in. For I love horses, not the sophists.
- Will you not obey, nor will you do it?
- I will not obey, nor will I do it, for I will become pale being a student.
- If you will not do it, who will? Will you and I go together?
- Not I
- But I will chase you from the house and I will throw you to the crows.
- ANd I will run away.
- But, I will go into the house, and
- What will I do then? Pheidippides will not win, but I will become the victory-carrier. But I know, I will go myself into , and I will become a student of Socrates, and I will learn the unjust argument. So I will put a stop to those creditors taking my money. But how, being an old man, slow concerning the precise detail of argument, will I learn philosophy. Nevertheless I will go in. WHy then, do I not knock this door, and shout. But I will do this, and I will knock on the door, and I will shout.  ¶ 10:37 PM