Blessed are the lotus-eaters, for they have consumed their inheritance.
A figure of consumption as the necessary precursor of being:
Only through the transfiguration of the existent does existence become possible.
Consequently everything that exists is the precursor of a necessary change --
So they are wrong to say that it is the material foundation of the world,
Since we are not still so naïve as to believe that movement is a material truth;
Similarly being, while in constant flux, cannot be even the aggregate
Of its components, since it is the change itself, and none of the permanencies
Which makes being, since being is being made. Conclusion:
Being is a figure for time, and time is the material extension of being.