The Plato Papers

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'Á marvellous fable for Our times funny, wise äld^f»nge He writeljfl tlike an archangeL.Ackroyd has written what we always knew that he I Palóne öf his génération could produce: a timeless Ips^ry masterpiece'l i A.N.Wilson, Daily Mail
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On ritual occasions, Plato, the orator, summons the cilizens of Londoni Bio impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularjy on t|g I unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on TheOrEE of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on ^ * Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossáry of twentieth-century terms, and çxplaining such early myths of création as^superÄing theory' { ¦and 'relativity'.
^But then he has a dream, or a vision, or he goes on a real joutaey ^(opinions are divided) and enters a väst underground cavern, where' ^S «'.citizen^ of Mouldwarp London stili live. On his return, Plato shares j •%his stories of this lost world, but bis words spread... Tovább

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'Á marvellous fable for Our times funny, wise äld^f»nge He writeljfl tlike an archangeL.Ackroyd has written what we always knew that he I Palóne öf his génération could produce: a timeless Ips^ry masterpiece'l i A.N.Wilson, Daily Mail
9 I .fu WE ' W W W • wfij* S' <9
On ritual occasions, Plato, the orator, summons the cilizens of Londoni Bio impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularjy on t|g I unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on TheOrEE of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on ^ * Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossáry of twentieth-century terms, and çxplaining such early myths of création as^superÄing theory' { ¦and 'relativity'.
^But then he has a dream, or a vision, or he goes on a real joutaey ^(opinions are divided) and enters a väst underground cavern, where' ^S «'.citizen^ of Mouldwarp London stili live. On his return, Plato shares j •%his stories of this lost world, but bis words spread consternation amontf his feiIqw Citizens and they quickly put hím on trial for corrupting ťh#| tjyouth with his lies and fables. !
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