Dialogue

 1 Repub|       invention? ~That would be ridiculous, he said. ~Then the lying
 2 Repub|         I fear that I must be a ridiculous teacher when I have so much
 3 Repub| guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed. ~But next, what
 4 Repub|      they have a washed-out and ridiculous appearance. ~Then now, I
 5 Repub|       said. ~There is something ridiculous in the expression "master
 6 Repub|      her; nothing could be more ridiculous. Like people who go about
 7 Repub|  passion or spirit; it would be ridiculous to imagine that this quality,
 8 Repub|         question has now become ridiculous. We know that, when the
 9 Repub|        question is, as you say, ridiculous. Still, as we are near the
10 Repub|       being unusual, may appear ridiculous. ~No doubt of it. ~Yes,
11 Repub|       of it. ~Yes, and the most ridiculous thing of all will be the
12 Repub|       proposal would be thought ridiculous. ~But then, I said, as we
13 Repub|        sight of a naked man was ridiculous and improper; and when first
14 Repub|      has been cobbling? ~What a ridiculous question! ~You have answered
15 Repub|     other; for what can be more ridiculous than for them to utter the
16 Repub| guardians will be? ~The idea is ridiculous, he said. ~There is also
17 Repub|       and utmost clearness, how ridiculous that we should not think
18 Repub|     knowledge of the good? ~How ridiculous! ~Yes, I said, that they
19 Repub|        good" -this is of course ridiculous. ~Most true, he said. ~And
20 Repub|  considerable), would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that
21 Repub|        misbehaving himself in a ridiculous manner; if, while his eyes
22 Repub|       speaking, in a narrow and ridiculous manner, of squaring and
23 Repub|  replied, such an idea would be ridiculous. ~And will not a true astronomer
24 Repub|       into earnest I am equally ridiculous. ~In what respect? ~I had
25 Repub|       the same hold also of the ridiculous? There are jests which you