Dear Nick, Thank you and Michael for your visit Wedenesay evening. As usual, I found it productive and stimulating. Yesterday, I started to write you a long letter but I couldn't get if off the ground. I've begun reading the Phaedo. If Plato wrote the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, a) why does he beat around the bush to report what others heard and said, instead of telling us what he, Plato, saw and heard, what Socrates said to him and what he said to Socrates. b) why are there, in the Crito and Phaedo, two separate, inconsistent accounts of Socrates' last 24 hrs? Isn't it likely that a single reporter intent on that very important "current event", would try to reconcile the two accounts instead of pretending he wasn't responsible for either of them. We'll have a lot to talk about, and meanwhile, to think about. EJM