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Chrysippus
‘Therefore you are a body. Therefore a stone.
Seventh Dealer
Mercy, in Heaven’s name! Unstone me, and let me be flesh as heretofore.
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Chrysippus
That is soon done. Back with you into flesh! Thus: Is every body animate?
Chrysippus
Is a stone animate?
Chrysippus
Now, you are a body?
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Chrysippus
And an animate body?
Chrysippus
Then being animate, you cannot be a stone.
Seventh Dealer
Ah! thank you, thank you. I was beginning to feel my limbs growing numb and solidifying like Niobe’s. Oh, I must have you. What’s to pay?
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Seventh Dealer
Here it is.
Heraclitus
Are you sole purchaser?
Seventh Dealer
Not I. All these gentlemen here are going shares.
Heraclitus
A fine strapping lot of fellows, and will do the ‘Reaper’ credit.
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Zeus
Don’t waste time. Next lot,—the Peripatetic!
Heraclitus
Now, my beauty, now, Affluence! Gentlemen, if you want Wisdom for your money, here is a creed that comprises all knowledge.:
Eighth Dealer
What is he like?
