Ma Ta, The City of the Sun sounds like Utopia,
In the City of the Sun, while duty and work are distributed among all, it
only falls to each one to work for about four hours every day. The remaining
hours are spent in learning joyously, in debating, in reading, in reciting,
in writing, in walking, in exercising the mind and body, and with play. They
allow no game which is played while sitting, neither the single die nor
dice, nor chess, nor others like these. But they play with the ball, with
the sack, with the hoop, with wrestling, with hurling at the stake. They
say, moreover, that grinding poverty renders men worthless, cunning, sulky,
thievish, insidious, vagabonds, liars, false witnesses, etc.; and that
wealth makes them insolent, proud, ignorant, traitors, assumers of what they
know not, deceivers, boasters, wanting in affection, slanderers, etc. But
with them all the rich and poor together make up the community. They are
rich because they want nothing, poor because they possess nothing; and
consequently they are not slaves to circumstances, but circumstances serve
them. And on this point they strongly recommend the religion of the
Christians, and especially the life of the apostles.
Amen to that!
Hazel
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: [allplanets-hollow] City of the Sun
I just found this..
The City of the Sun
A Poetical Dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights
Hospitallers and a Genoese
Sea-Captain, his guest.
The City of the Sun, by Tommaso Campanella. Prepared by Kirk Crady
from scanner output provided by Internet Wiretap.
The City of the Sun
A Poetical Dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers
and a Genoese Sea-Captain, his guest.
G.M. Prithee, now, tell me what happened to you during that voyage?
Capt. I have already told you how I wandered over the whole earth. In
the course of my journeying I came to Taprobane, and
was compelled to go ashore at a place, where through fear of the
inhabitants I remained in a wood. When I stepped out of this
I found myself on a large plain immediately under the equator.
G.M. And what befell you here?
Capt. I came upon a large crowd of men and armed women, many of whom
did not understand our language, and they
conducted me forthwith to the City of the Sun.
--continued here:
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/citysun.html
Enjoy~
MaTa
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