“If they could lay hands on the man who was trying to set them free and lead them up, they would kill him.” (Paragraph 29, Line 10) This is one of the more intriguing lines from the first half of the essay, and it gains special significance, falling as it does just before the page break that separates the first half from the second half. The violence invoked here helps amplify the resistance to change that can be a wise ruler’s most strident enemy. Because the transition from light to dark was so difficult and disorienting, the difficulty in communicating across that transition can be dangerous, even deadly, which ups the stakes of the essay significantly, despite the hypothetical nature of it thus far.”