They’re like Disney cartoons. They put on, rather, they dramatized, Aesop’s fables, things like that. That’s still today in Japan; the Noh drama is very close to the old Platonic mime. And the miming of the dialogues, and so on, began as fun and as a special art form. Nothing to do with philosophy. It was just entertainment. But, there’s quite a bit of this in a book on Dostoyevsky by Bahktin. He’s a Russian, with this new book on the poetics of Dostoyevsky. Now, Dostoyevsky was entirely a right hemisphere man. And he too puts on these mimes, these carnival-like Mardi Gras, crazy performances, that were a traditional Byzantine form. Now Byzantium you’ve heard of, (another name for it is Istanbul, where you’ve just been) and Byzantium has a big tie-in with Russia and Russian origins are very close to these Byzantine origins. Byzantium was Hellenic, not Roman, and so hence the Greek tie-in. Byzantium came out
