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FAY'S CURVE
Soul
In Greek, psyche means both soul and butterfly. Plato calls it the beginning of motion: what moves itself.
The hidden text
Ψυχὴ πᾶσα ἀθάνατος. Τὸ γὰρ ἀεικίνητον ἀθάνατον· τὸ δ’ ἄλλο κινοῦν καὶ ὑπ’ ἄλλου κινούμενον, παῦλαν ἔχον κινήσεως, παῦλαν ἔχει ζωῆς. Μόνον δὴ τὸ αὑτὸ κινοῦν, ἅτε οὐκ ἀπολεῖπον ἑαυτό, οὔποτε λήγει κινούμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ὅσα κινεῖται τοῦτο πηγὴ καὶ ἀρχὴ κινήσεως. In English, my rendering
Every soul is immortal. For what is ever in motion is immortal; but what moves another and is moved by another, in ceasing to move ceases to live. Only what moves itself, since it does not abandon itself, never stops moving — and for all other things that move this is the source and the beginning of motion.
Plato, Phaedrus 245c Public domain — ancient text, 4th century BC
This is exactly what the sheet carries. The reader returns it letter for letter.
Measurements
- Words
- 44
- On the sheet
- 412 bytes
- Capacity
- 574 bytes
- Fill
- 72%
- Line length
- 4.56 m
- Data rungs
- 1,149
- Paper
- A4 · 210 × 297 mm
Prints
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