The title character of this book tells a lawyer that people delight in making laws, yet delight even more in breaking them, and later tells another person that by directing passion with reason, it will resurrect itself daily like a phoenix.
The title character of this book tells a lawyer that people delight in making laws, yet delight even more in breaking them, and later tells another person that by directing passion with reason, it will resurrect itself daily like a phoenix. The penultimate section of this work claims that "when you have reached the ($) mountain top, then you shall begin to climb" and "when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance" and is titled "On Death." Many of this work's sections begin with someone saying (*) "Speak to us of" a certain topic, like Crime and Punishment or Good and Evil, and some of those requests are put forth by Almitra the Seeress. For ten points, identify this collection beginning with the title character's arrival on a ship from Orphalese, written by Khalil Gibran.
The title character of this book tells a lawyer that people delight in making laws, yet delight even more in breaking them, and later tells another person that by directing passion with reason, it will resurrect itself daily like a phoenix.
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