Socrates, Quavers and photography
Gray
I heard then on the great Mount of PetaPixels that a woman of great learning has declared that photographic images, or the begetting thereof, diminishes the powers of memory in the begetter. This declaration recalls, if of memory we are now speaking, in my own mind, words similarly spoken about other forms of representation.
Socrates
Do you perhaps speak of the memory-diminishing power of words?
Gray
I do Socrates. Words, I believe, spoken by yourself.
Socrates
You speak the truth, Gray. I’d almost forgotten about that.
Gray
And perhaps you may also have forgotten the benefits of the written word, most particularly, words written on a list when we went shopping in Wilkinsons when your good wife had requested you buy bird seed but your mind was distracted by the 2-for-1 offers in the batteries section?
Socrates
Once again, Gray, you speak the truth. From my mind these events had completely slipped until your words recalled them, as if an errant dog wandering in a forest by a whistle. But the memories of these events are now as if yapping at my ankles.
Gray
And your written words that day in Wilkinsons recalled to you that seed that nourishes the birds, and thereby pleases your good wife, without which your purchases may only have comprised 20 AAA batteries and a giant pack of Quavers. And, tell me, did you not that day beget a photo of said pack of Quavers, so impressed were you by the essence of its giantness?
Socrates
Correct, Gray. I have the same said photo here on my tablet. It does indeed capture the true essence of giantness. Looking at it recalls to me that evening with my wife watching Strictly, as we consumed pack after pack of Quavers, the giant pack seemingly never-ending so giant was it. Twas the episode when Craig Revel Horwood gave the rarest of 10 scores and Darcy Bustle was wearing that awful tweed jacket with that gold necklace. I can see every detail in my mind’s eye.
Gray
Once again, like a dog yapping around your ankles?
Socrates
This is true, Gray, like that dog yapping.
Gray
And now, Socrates, since we have agreed these matters, we can decide the others.
Don’t forget the bird seed
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