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Dear Socrates
Dear Socrates
Dear Socrates,
What are you doing writing a column? I thought you were dead! Didn’t you drink the hemlock back in ancient Greece? And since when would you be caught dead dispensing advice? Aren’t you supposed to be wise because you know how ignorant you are?
Virginia O’Hanlon
Dear Virginia,
It is not quite what I had expected myself. It has taken me some time to figure out just where I am. You see, I fully expected to revive in some form or other, and I was hoping against hope that I had purified my soul sufficiently with a life of philosophy to be worthy of release from my body once and for all.
And when I did regain consciousness, I felt that I had indeed arrived in a blessed realm. I scarcely know how to describe the impressions made upon me by the marvels at every turn – things that, I now realize, you must take for granted.
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