My Interview With a Famous Dead Person

My interview wasn’t going well. Probably because I didn’t speak Ancient or Hellenistic Greek and English wasn’t around yet when he was alive, much less modern English. But you’d think I could get some responses from him anyway. Still I got nothing at all. He couldn’t tell me if his stories about Atlantis were a story for entertainment, a metaphor of warning, or something he believed to be true. He wouldn’t say a word about what it was like to study under Socrates. He wouldn’t even talk about the Academy where he trained future political leaders. But in retrospect, I guess he never responded because he’s dead.