(Abusing philosophical skills?)
One of the skills philosophy teaches you (or reinforces - if you’ve already acquired it somewhere else) is to be able to jump over time onto the time-free orbit.
And then during a particularly plodding lecture, a thought comes to mind: you don’t have to use the skill exclusively to go symposia with Socrates & Co. – why not, from time to time, go to an audience with the King?
