/lit/ - Literature

>>16413086
>TL;DR:
Sailor failed his mission, don't know what to say to the king.
>other Sailor gives this tall tale of how he got his favored position
>guard leading them then in the end, knowing that the 'you dun goofed' sailor will probably die, or something bad, and that giving him this tale was merely giving him false hopes
ala
>What is the point of giving water to a bird at the dawn of its slaughter in the morning?”

>>16022417
In this 'moment' (as Damascius puts it) before time, you cannot think of as in 'steps of time', you can imagine the sun in eclipse, or an eye without Iris. There's now only the pupil, flowing forth; in fact, it itself is the flowing forth. Can light see itself?
Thus the Indefinite Dyad becomes 'Intellect' by becoming the object of its own vision, or rather, Intellect is the object of its own vision, the vision is the One as Monad and the Subject is the Indefinite as Intellect (again, following Plotinus); before Intellect beholds the One and distinguishes the Dyad from the One there is no difference, it is the Act of objectification that in turn produces 'Soul', which "just" is a "repetition" of the above, which could be said to be the 'Iris' of the Pupil, even in the literal etymological sense.
The light which this Eye of god sees is the light from within itself, being itself, since there's not yet anything else.
This is what we call Epistrophe.
Mone, Proodos, Epistrophe.
These three words surmise the entirety of "Neoplatonism" and existence, it is the Myth of Er.