READING: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Minor (64): Moral Letters to Lucilius 90: On þe Part Played by Philosophy in þe Progress of Man
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Technological advance the business of the lowest grade of slaves; desire for technological advance the result of making your body your master rather than your servant; and other topics: Early inventions were thought out by no other class of men than those who have them in charge to-day. We know that certain devices have come to light only within our own memory—such as the use of windows which admit the clear light through transparent tiles, and such as the vaulted baths, with pipes let into their walls for the purpose of diffusing the heat which maintains an even temperature in their lowest as well as in their highest spaces...
MARC. That's it. See, for instance, you say "Read Seneca," and I could easily have gotten annoyed. I'm quite capable of being really annoyed by your saying to me in the course of our conversation "Read Seneca." Which is absurd of me!
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SERGE. Read Seneca.
MARC. That's it. See, for instance, you say "Read Seneca," and I could easily have gotten annoyed. I'm quite capable of being really annoyed by your saying to me in the course of our conversation "Read Seneca." Which is absurd of me!
SERGE. No. It's not absurd.