“Good sir, how many angels may jig upon the point
       of a needle?”
“The answer, friend, would be metaphysical, and
       you must inquire of Aquinas.”
“But what of the dance itself?”
“That would lie within the physics, and you must
       ask Aristotle.”
“And whether the jig be good or bad?”
“That must be aesthetical, and of aesthetics ’twere
       best not to speak.”
Papers of Methodius, Book III

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