Yesterday, I was exposed to what has been called "a dining experience like no other." At lunchtime, Dilly's Deli is so crowded, I wondered when the fire marshal had last visited the establishment. The line snaked out of the door to the corner, and by the time I reached the counter, I was freezing. I decided on the hamburger steak special; the other specials were liver and onions or tuna casserole. Each special is offered with two side dishes, but there was no potato salad left and the green beans were cooked barely beyond recognition. I chose the gelatin salad and was turned out to be the blandest coleslaw I have ever eaten. At Dilly's, you sit at one of four long tables. The couple sitting across from me was having an argument. The truck driver next to me told me more than I wanted to know about weight matters. After I had eaten most of the food on my plate, I rose to go, intending to leave my plate behind; the cashier yelled at me to clean up after myself. Throwing away that plate of food was the most enjoyable part of dining at Dilly's.
a. Couples dining together
b. The fire marshal
c. A long line of customers
d. Homemade pie
a. To be waited on by the restaurant’s staff
b. Place your order with the waiter who comes to your table
c. Dress warmly
d. Carry your own food to your table
Plato, the famous Greek philosopher, taught that the things of the world around us are merely copies or "shadows" of greater, eternal realities. He used a metaphor of people living inside a cave to convey his ideas.
The people inside the cave could not see the world outside the cave; they could only see shadows of people and animals as they passed by. Plato was suggesting that the shadows would seem very real and alive to the people inside the cave, because that was all they had ever seen of the outside world. But these shadows were not the real, living creatures of the outside world; they were merely reflections of them. Plato's point was that this temporal world is a ___________ of some greater, eternal reality.
