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This is a normal post You mean Plato says he said that?
We have no original writings from Socrates - and that monologue is either his own reason, or the excuse of his biographers.

Gosh aren't we all so highbrow! I'm off to write some haiku about Nietzsche
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 7:54, Reply)
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Thanks for pointing that out. And since we're being patronisingly pedantic as well as highbrow, thias morning, that was part of a dialogue, not a monologue. He was quite famous for them, don'tchaknow.
 (I helped save b3ta! FridgeBadger, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 10:39, Reply)
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it was still a fair point
 (ozof, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 11:01, Reply)
This is a normal post I wrote "monologue" because of the absence
- of any other voices in your extract. Of course it comes from a dialogue, but your quoted part is monological.
QED

/poking and pointing with his pipe
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 11:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Well said Tarquin
That should put the oik in his place, what?
 (I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 12:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Quite so, Athelstan.
Now be a good chap and pass me another pauper, my glans is in need of a vigorous buffing.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 14:53, Reply)