Monday, August 28, 2023
The Pantyhose Hen
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), p. 572:
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John [Dillon] had played a decisive role in securing a joint appointment for me in classics as well as in history. We would meet in his house on Euclid Street to discuss the cosmos of later Platonism. It was an all-embracing system that emanated, with benign inevitability, from the Wholly One—the pantelôs hen. (John's wife, Jean, would always refer irreverently to this Supreme Being, who plainly occupied a large space in the minds of John and his philosophical friends, as "the Pantyhose Hen.")
