His writings are fragments—like shards of pottery, or dinosaur bones. And they are a test of who can read best. Heraclitus will elude us until we get the crucial point. Matt Colvin holds a PhD in Classics from Cornell University and teaches classical languages and humanities a Mars Hill Academy.
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