YOUNGER STUDENT
Oh, I forgot
My note-book. Can you tear a sheet from yours?
SATAN (to a man beside him who rises, apparently tired of waiting)
What, going? Well, I wouldn't, if I were you.
You ought to hear this: I have had a hand
In getting him to speak; and I am sure
There will be something doing.
THE MAN
Well, I'll stay,
Since you, of the committee, vouch for it.
[More people enter and take their seats.
YOUNG PLUMBER (to his companion)
What do you get by being philosopher?
I don't see how you do it. I could never
Think about nothing all the time, like you.
OLD PLUMBER
Perhaps your mind is not just made for it.
It takes a thinker, that it does. And I
Did not get into it so easy, either.
I read a lot of books before I saw
The greatness of Philosophy. Now I wonder
How I got on without it. Why, to-day
I could not clean a sewer in peace of mind
If I did not know that, when I got home,
I could philosophize on Space and Time.