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RAPPE, Sara. Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii + 266 pp. Cloth, $59.95--It was Plato who informed the Greek philosophical tradition of how the King of Egypt declared that writing will inevitably "implant forgetfulness in men's souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks" (Phaedrus 275a). Plotinus likewise knew how these "wise men of ...