The act of “coming out of” this place is identified with the “renunciation of time” in Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace. After being dragged up a “rugged ascent,” a resident of this place learns that the “child of goodness” is the source of the changing seasons. This place corresponds to pistis and eikasia, the two segments of the “visible realm” as described in the prior section’s analogy of the (*) divided (10[1])line. (10[1]0[1])This place (0[1])features a low wall (10[1]0[1])in front of a road on which (0[1])men carry statues and figures of animals. (10[4]0[1])In a story meant to show that (10[1])philosophers (10[1])should rule the ideal (10[1])city, (10[2]0[3])a (10[1])man is freed (10[1])from (10[1])this (0[1])place (10[1]0[1])and learns (0[1])that its shadows (10[1])are not (10[1])reality. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])name this underground setting of an “allegory” (10[2])in Plato’s Republic. (10[3])■END■ (10[8])