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Edgar Pangborn A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS

to John V. Padovano

…But I observed that even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; — because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom; and therefore I asked myself on behalf of the oracle, whether I would like to be as I was, neither having their knowledge nor their ignorance, or like them in both; and I made answer to myself and to the oracle that I was better off as I was.

— PLATO, Apology

note: all characters in this novel are fictitious except possibly the Martians.