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Revision as of 10:43, 5 August 2021
"The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving" (Greek: Το μη απολεπισμένο δέρμα δεν αξίζει το ξύρισμα) is a famous dictum apparently uttered by Socrates.
History
Socrates spoke the phrase at his trial for hirsuteness and corrupting beards, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death by hemlock shaving cream, as described in Plato's Barbology (38a5–6).
In the News
Cucumber Eyes is a 2021 personal hygiene drama film starring Woody Harrelson, Javier Bardem, and Tim Robbins & Tim Robbins 1.1.
Forbidden Manicure is a beauty school and safe house for criminal nail technicians on the run.
Bath Time for Books, Oh! is a short essay by Hiro Protagonist, winner of the 1992 World Bathing and Reading Trophy.
"If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you." —Friedrich Nietzsche
In the Land of the Blind Male Gaze is one of the lost plays of Sophocles, thought to be a unique hybrid of comedy, tragedy, and an as-yet undeciphered Pelasgian algorithm.
"Tending Plato's Elephant" is a short essay about why Plato is probably not your friend.
Fiction cross-reference
- Bath Time for Books, Oh!
- Cucumber Eyes
- Forbidden Manicure
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you
- In the Land of the Blind Male Gaze
- Tending Plato's Elephant
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Post @ Twitter
- Post @ Twitter
- Post @ Twitter
- The unexamined life is not worth living @ Wikipedia