Thread: Sun September 11th - Sat September 17th

A sunny, warm, Saturday, Spring morning. I might sit in the sun and read. I’m reading Plato again. I love the opening line...

”I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess; and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing...”

Razor: W&B, 4/8, Canadian Maple scales

Pre Shave: Proraso

Cream: Speick

ASB: None

After Shave: None

Summary: Pictured with my new Fountain Pen, A Swan/Mabie Todd, with a really flexible, fine nib (known as a ‘wet noodle’). Oh, and coffee (beans hand ground in a vintage grinder, dollop of cream, cocoa powder on top). Used cold water, to see what a cold water shave was like. Not really impressed, though I didn’t hate it. One and a bit passes (ATG on the neck and jawline).

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

A sunny, warm, Saturday, Spring morning. I might sit in the sun and read. I’m reading Plato again. I love the opening line...

”I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess; and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing...”

beautiful shave Carl...Nice to see someone also enjoys reading the Classics like Plato's Republic. That is a heavy read my friend. I love book II, with Glaucon's speech after Socrates silences Thrasymachus and steps in to defend that people don't practice justice for the sake of justice but in fear of what may happen to them if they don't:

"That those who practice it [justice], practice it constrained by want of power to act unjustly, we might better perceive if we do the following in thought : granting each one of them both, the just and the unjust, license to do as he wishes, let us then follow them closely to observe whither his desire (è epithumia) will lead each. We should then catch the just man in the act of following the same path as the unjust man on account of the advantage that every nature is led by its very nature to pursue as good, being diverted only by force of law toward the esteem of the equal. The license I am talking about would be supremely such if they were given the very same power as is said to have been given in the past to the ancestor of Gyges the Lydian....

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Pre-de-Provence Soap
DR Harris Arlington Splash
Baxter of California AS Balm

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

beautiful shave Carl...Nice to see someone also enjoys reading the Classics like Plato's Republic. That is a heavy read my friend. I love book II, with Glaucon's speech after Socrates silences Thrasymachus and steps in to defend that people don't practice justice for the sake of justice but in fear of what may happen to them if they don't:

"That those who practice it [justice], practice it constrained by want of power to act unjustly, we might better perceive if we do the following in thought : granting each one of them both, the just and the unjust, license to do as he wishes, let us then follow them closely to observe whither his desire (è epithumia) will lead each. We should then catch the just man in the act of following the same path as the unjust man on account of the advantage that every nature is led by its very nature to pursue as good, being diverted only by force of law toward the esteem of the equal. The license I am talking about would be supremely such if they were given the very same power as is said to have been given in the past to the ancestor of Gyges the Lydian....

Ta, of course, to my mind, the whole book is about what IS just, and what ISN'T just, as in the part about is it just to give a man that which is rightfully his. I think he goes on to talk of giving a man's arms (weapons) back to him when he is not in his right mind. I love the arguments, and I love the little human elements, of course the whole thing makes the mind BOGGLE, but boggle in a good way...

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Schulze 6/8 razor, celluloid scales
Omega brush and Acca Kappa cream and balm ('discovered' on my recent Italian vacation)

Have a great Saturday!

Good Morning,
Weather has cooled enough to go outside (still hitting 42˚C during the day, but dropping a little in the evening), so I'm having a good weekend.

Today
Prep: Shower
Strop: SRD Premium 1 Leather 30,70
Brush: Semogue, 1438, Boar Bristle
Soap: Cella, Crema Sapone
Razor: Dovo, master's 6/8", Grenadille Scales.
Finish : Allume Di Rocca Naturale
AS: Nivea

Another nice 2 pass shave, out to an Engagement party later, so probably a second shave this evening

have a Great Weekend

Have a nice weekend

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Pictured with my new Fountain Pen, A Swan/Mabie Todd, with a really flexible, fine nib (known as a ‘wet noodle’).

You're on that slippery slope as well? Long live Mabie Todd Swan (these are my flex ones)!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Oh, and coffee (beans hand ground in a vintage grinder, dollop of cream, cocoa powder on top). Used cold water, to see what a cold water shave was like. Not really impressed, though I didn’t hate it. One and a bit passes (ATG on the neck and jawline).

Nice shave Carl! I won't comment on Plato or pens (I do know a very good custom maker of those though, if you want to know PM), since I know next to nothing about it (well, some Plato, but very little). However: what coffee beans did you use? Love a good coffee, even though I almost only drink espresso based coffe nowadays. Those vintage hand grinded grinders can look very cool too ... Pics!?