War Is Our Mother! (rough translation)

[Gordon Fitch]

Justin Schwartz:
> Heraklit is Herakleitos, an important pre-Socratic philosopher probably most 
> famous for his dictum that change is all ("Panta rheia"), and the remark 
> that you cannot step in the same river twice; he contravened the more usual 
> view that there is an unchanging unity underlying the world. He left no 
> writings and is known only from quoted fragments. --jks

He would disagree about the two realms mentioned by our war
fan: "The way up and the way down are one and the same."  In
this, of course, he appropriately contradicted himself, both
as to the _panta_ and the river.