11.
Every beast is driven to pasture by blows.
Is it? Is it though, I’ve seen farmers driving beasts to pasture, and there were few if any blows involved. What about the flow? Don’t the beasts know the way? I don’t get this one.
12.
You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.
The turtle moves. Everything is change. Coherence is always fleeting.
13.
…to delight in the mire.
A fragment of a fragment. A shard. Wouldn’t know what to do with it.
14.
Night-walkers, magicians, Backhoi, Lenai, and the initiated…
The mysteries practiced among men are unholy mysteries.
I tried searching for these terms (Backhoi, Lenai), but nothing popped up, just a load of stuff about backhoes. I’m too lazy to persist.
If you replace the word “mysteries” with “secrets”, then I agree.
15.
For if it were not to Dionysos that they made a procession and sang the shameful phallic hymn, they would be acting most shamelessly. But Hades is the same as Dionysos in whose honour they go mad and rave.
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16.
How can one hide from that which never sets?
You can’t. You can’t hide from that which never settles, either.
17.
The many do not take heed of such things as those they meet with, nor do they mark them when they are taught, though they think they do.
The lesson is the teacher’s projection onto the pupil.
18.
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
Tales of the Unexpected did a pretty good job though. So did Colombo.
19.
Knowing not how to listen, nor how to speak.
Story of my life mate.
20.
**When they are born, they wish to live and meet with their dooms — or rather to rest — and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.
My cat doesn’t know how “time” works, so she has no such concerns.