unsocratic

Updated: May 7, 2025

Do not, ascetic reader, gag at the unsocratic plane. True, Max Meltzer had neither the grain nor the leisure of a sophist, a capacity for tenses or an appreciation of Kant. He had never built a bridge, led a Bible class, or attempted the first inch of the five-foot bookshelf.

Fannie Hurst - Humoresque: A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It