Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Ptahhotep Maxims, Conclusion 6 of 7

This segment is easy and short. Only ten lines.

So I drew a snake for you. The snake does S curves up the page then turns the corner and continues down the page and turns the corner again to go back up. At this point all of the frames are copy/pasted and dragged across so the beginning of the second set connects to the end of the first set. Then again and again and again to fill the page with the snake crawling up and down the page like PacMan.

This is the second to last of the Maxim segments. The final segment is longer than this one.

This one says:

* Submerge your mind, order your mouth
* then your advice will be among the officials.
* Be completely exact with your master,
* act so that he is told, "He is that one's son,"
* and so that those who will hear it are told,
* "Moreover, blessed is he to whom he was born."
* Set your mind during the time of your speaking
* and say things of distinction:
* then the officials who hear will say,
* "How good is the issue of his mouth."


2 comments:

rcommal said...

I am a fan of Thomas Sowell and always have I been for decades. Reading Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions" back in the day, in real time, when it first came out, was so brain-affirming for me. It also, at that time, was so encouraging and enervating, politically.

I am so, so sorry that he's not the sort of guy who inspires people anymore. I feel the same way about Stephen L. Carter (whose books I also collected, many years ago).

FWIW.

ricpic said...

Stop the presses! Chip posts a short post!!!