seed

julian lynch | "seed" | orange you glad | 2009
yes, indeed, said i, and here’s another charming thing about them — they hate worst of all the man who tells them the truth, who tells them that nothing in the world will do them any good — not medicines or burnings or cuttings, no, not incantations or amulets, or anything else until they stop drinking and gorging and wenching and idling.
–socrates to adeimantos in plato’s republic, book iv