A man comes from the next city seeking Diogenes 'O Diogenes, I have come in search Of wisdom… Can you write me a Book and give that to me so that I can cherish wisdom all my life?'
'You fool!' says Diogenes *'If you were hungry you would not eat the painting of a meal but the food itself - and yet you seek the Book but not the wisdom… Discard the Book; see the truth!'
poem 8 in my series of poems on Diogenes of Sinope, Diogenes the Cynic, Diogenes the Dog...