Chapter 3, Chapters 80 - 83 Summary

Chapter 80: In this chapter a small General receives an invitation from Diotima. There is something mysterious about the whole matter, as the writing does not seem to have been Diotima's. He was rather thrilled and she was a bit surprised but took the event in the spirit of something supernatural. Diotima welcomes her surprise guest. The General's career development is outlined briefly. By the time he became a Major the others had noticed that he was what they described as a philosopher; because of this they made him a staff officer. Later on, but far from the finish the man had lost much of his motivation and turned more into someone lazy entrenched into the position and holding onto it, not out of any real interest, but for the sake of job security. This is important but this attitude...