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Wikipedia link for The Republic Also, the quote is as follows and is attributed to Socrates: "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." The quote is from Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius who also quotes Socrates as saying: "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Sounds like Socrates and Laertius are on our side vis-a-vis eating from The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Kanji (literally "characters from Han China") are Chinese characters used in Japanese. Kanji are one of the four character sets used in the modern Japanese writing system (the other three being hiragana, katakana and romaji).

Japanese animal life includes at least 140 species of mammals; 450 species of birds; and a wide variety of reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Mammals include wild boar, deer, rabbits and hares, squirrels, and various species of bear. Foxes and badgers also are numerous and, according to traditional beliefs, possess supernatural powers. The only primate mammal in Japan is the Japanese macaque, a red-faced monkey found throughout Honshū. The most common birds are sparrows, house swallows, and thrushes. Water birds are common as well, including cranes, herons, swans, storks, cormorants, and ducks. The waters off Japan abound with fish and other marine life, particularly at around 36º north latitude, where the cold Oyashio and warm Kuroshio currents meet and create ideal conditions for larger species.

I Am The Mercury
By Jimmie Spheeris

I cannot go anymore to the marshes
where the gatekeeper smiles at the poisons that he's made
for my heart belongs to the one on the mountain
where the doves build their nests in the sun-ripened glade

for I am the mercury — light of the morning
looking for shelter in this thunder and this rain
and you like some windmill weave light where its storming
your love like a potion for the hunger and the pain

Let it rain

I have been bought, I have been sold in the city
I've dined with the demons and I drank of their fear
but you, you have known and waited in silence
come cradle my heart in a homecoming tear

and we are the mercury — light of the morning
looking for shelter in this thunder and this rain
and he like some windmill weaves light where its storming
his love like a potion for the hunger and the pain

let it rain — let it rain
let it rain on the mountain
let it rain