One Book, AND One website, AND One World Plato

The Facade Question:  on "Twitter"

The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato:

Yes.
Thus, then, as appears, the one will be other than itself?
True.
Well, then, if anything be other than anything, will it not be other than that which is other?
Certainly.
And will not all things that are not one, be other than the one, and the one other than the not-one?
Of course.
Then the one will be other than the others?
True.

Ahh..

Armenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the more, if not the most, challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues.[1][2][3]

The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates. The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his treatise defending Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality who asserted that Parmenides' supposition that there is a one gives rise to intolerable absurdities and contradictions
 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Reductio ad absurdum:

And now further too, Wikipedia has a Random Page Generator:
and a WikiQuote:

"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. "

~ Thornton Wilder

And finally..From Wikiquote Rick Cook (born 1944) is an American author of light fantasy novels. His writing includes many computer jokes, and is best enjoyed by those who have a background in computers.

* Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

T

Gardens of the Crystal Palace

Furthermore. And more on subject of Stichomancy, AKA "Bingomancy"

To produce a reading I decided to try a Random Word Generator I started with a "common" word which produced "Daylight" and then a "somewhat uncommon" word. Which was Prolixity.

The word "Daylight" originally brought me to "Between the dark and the daylight: romances By William Dean Howells". Although curious, not of much interest.

So, I then went to The Voyage to the North Pole By "Daylight" printed in 1878
Also, a curious account, but I realised my "random" reading was becoming less & less. A few Avatarlike passages caught my eyes..



As to prolixity, Shakespere apparently liked the term, and used it often. But, "The principles of rhetoric" which is a "scarce antiquarian book included in the special Legacy Reprint Series."

Houdini Stichomancy

Stichomancy is said to be one of the oldest forms of divination in which the querant opens to a random page of randomly selected book in a library, to find an excerpt that applies to the situation at hand. I like to do my "readings" on http://www.facade.com

My one passage reading today is drawn from a book by Harry Houdini. Apparently, Harry did write a few. Someday, I'll figure out generate a code for doing a "Googlemancy" or "Bingomancy", perhaps with the book snippet feature.



Here is a random passage..

..."Then, all at once, when the force exerted horizontally is as great as possible, and the men are exerting their strength in the opposite direction in order to resist it, the girl abruptly ceases the pressure WITHOUT WARNING and exerts it in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Unprepared for this change, the victims lose their equilibrium and find themselves at the mercy of the girl, and so much the more so in proportion as they are stronger and their.."

Nice.