Well, I imagine it was Plato's intention to stir up debate, so his points wrould have had to conflict in places so they could be ameliorated to complement an argument.
I think rather they're one-offs by educated people who happened upon a grain of truth, even if it was against their better instincts. And, I'm sorry, but I didn't mention Dorian Gray in comparing to Tolstoy, but rather Dostoyevsky, whose tone of polotical uncertainty was not by chance.
I've never read Edith Wharton. But along the theme of being shallow, I've read "Sybil" by Disraeli and "The Charterhouse of Parma" by Stendhal.
I'm the same way. If I feel something too deeply, then I'm still sorting it out and it's not ready to be expressed.
Hi, Hobbes. Another poet! So why do you write poetry, to unwind or to wind up? For me, it's the first.
