Landgrave.
You have dipped somewhat in philosophy
Of a too cynical and wordy
sort.
Tannii.\user.
To logic there is one reality,
Words.
But the commonsense of humankind
By logic baffles
logic, chains with Deed
The lion Thought.
It is a circle, friends
!
All life and death
and mystery ravel out
Into one argument — the rounded one.
The Unknown Minstrel.
Count
me your children their arithmetic
!
Zero, the circle, grows to one, the line :
Both limitless in their own way.
Proceed.
Two is by shape the Coptic aspirate,
Life breathed, and death indrawn.
And so
Rounds you at last the ten, completion's self,
The circle and the line.
Why stick at nought
?
Bertram.
Only a donkey
fastened
to a post
Moves
in a circle.
Landgrave.
This is noble talk !
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