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>be Plato
>write around 30 something dialogues
>focus longest two on politics
>implicitly focus on political questions about virtue and conduct and what the poets and sophists teach in most of the rest
>write the Timaeus
>portray Socrates as just watching with little comment
>the big joke is that Timaeus has to restart over and over because he keeps forgetting shit
>Critias tells a story that sounds a lot like the invasion of Sicily
>the Sicilian general that fucks Athens up is present and watching silently
>no one picks up on how wild this all is
>readers through the ages just decide I'm all about this shit
>mfw

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it's going to take almost half a year of daily reading to get through the complete works of Plato, lord have mercy