THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: For, surely, either all things have communion with all; or

nothing with any other thing; or some things communicate with some

things and others not.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: And two out of these three suppositions have been found to be

impossible.

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: Every one then, who desires to answer truly, will adopt the

third and remaining hypothesis of the communion of some with some.

THEAETETUS: Quite true.

STRANGER: This communion of some with some may be illustrated by the

case of letters; for some letters do not fit each other, while others

do.

THEAETETUS: Of course.

STRANGER: And the vowels, especially, are a sort of bond which pervades

all the other letters, so that without a vowel one consonant cannot be

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