"After Christmas, after everyone had gone, he sat down in Helens study and reread the first chapter of Philosophy Made Simple. He was trying to figure out what had happened to him on Christmas Eve. He was looking for a passage in which Uncle Siva –TJ’s uncle Siva – quote Socrates comparison of the soul to a bird, and when he found it: he underlined it, for man who beholds the beauty of this world will sometimes be reminded of true beauty, and his wings will begin to grow and he will desire to spread his wings and fly upward, and because he gazes upward, like a bird, and cares nothing for the world below, he will be considered mad."
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Robert Hellenga in: Philosophy Made Simple, Little, Brown, Dec 19, 2009, p. 25.
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