Beginning of Essay
For more time than artists would like to admit we have been fighting a man who haunts us from a grave long forgotten, and for just over 600 years we have paid great respect to a man whose marble tomb lies in Florence. Since the dawn of time people have passed on ....

Middle of Essay
.... and we are the great-great-great grandchildren of that father. It is necessary to review the precepts of Plato's ideal world. There existed, for Plato, a world of ideas where all things exist in the perfect form. That ideal place is where all ideas that we have and that appear in material form originate. Thus the paper you read this essay off of is an imitation of the idea of paper, that idea of paper is paper in its quintessential paper perfection. This sets up two layers of import, the first, or perfect, layer; and the second, or imperfect, layer where we all live and construct things. But now where does literature fit into all of this? Accordi ....