Scrolling Wikipedia <br />for entries on ‘Perception’ <br />this entry – scrappy and unclear – <br />produced a new conception: <br /> <br />referring to the standard quotes <br />tradition offers, to be safe, <br />before the bolder modern thoughts, <br />it mentioned ‘Plato’s Cafe’… <br /> <br />imagination leapt for joy: <br />dazzling hubbub of philo-sophy, <br />sunglassed and gesticulating; <br />strong wine, expressive coffee… <br /> <br />or should it be pronounced today <br />as genteel afternoon café? <br />or, workmanlike, the niff and naff <br />of greasy spoon and bikers’ caff? <br /> <br />but thanks, O Wikied editors, <br />for this so joyous Grecian twist: <br />long may this Left-Bank image stay <br />of how philosophers should exist, <br />and spend their dialectic day: <br />coffee and exquisite gateau; <br />Gauloises at Le Cave de Plato..<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/plato-s-cafe/
