A philosopher (Homo sapien sapien) who eschews ecstasy is like a flower (Convolvulus arvensis) denied copulation. A bee (Apis mellifera) indifferent to the excesses is like a reader (Homo sapien receptaculum) who censors the penetration.
"The more it swells, the more it promises."
Constrained philosopher & cautious reader are like chasten rivers—beauty aborted in "dearth or foison"---descendants of Parnassus where it is taught Nothing in Excess.
Chastity is to erotics as a levee is to spring melt. Where "seedmen should scatter grain upon the slime & ooze" & roots seep into the swell & promise, flooded passions instead bleed their mud into an indifferent ocean. The staid rock at Delphi reads Know thyself.
Entrained in what over-runs the banks of true ignorance (in numbers like the stars!) are thoughtful perpetuations of lascivious bindweed—perhaps an unwelcome “notion” & yet as suitable a subject of procreation as any we need (else wise we are left with a pretense of ignorance: the Nilus as vaginal, the reader as sphragis & the first to copulate as Apollo---"read"philosopher!).
