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The most beautiful thing I've read all week:

"For God is the Creator of all things: He Himself knows where and when anything should be, or should have been, created; and He knows how to weave the beauty of the whole out of the similarity and diversity of its parts. The man who cannot view the whole is offended by what he takes to be the deformity of a part but this is because he does not know how it is to be adapted or related to the whole."

--Augustine, The City of God

Also: Plato is making me feel guilty about eating sausage as I read about the City of Sows: basically, pigs are unnecessary in the original city. Once you add relishes in, you have nice things like sweets and fatty meats, as well as injustice and doctors to heal you of all the unhealthiness.