/lit/ - Literature

>So if it is not to be, it must have being a not-being as a bond in regard to its not-being, just as, in like manner, what is must have not-being what is not, in order that it, in its turn, may completely be. This is how what is would most of all be and what is not would not be: on the one hand, by what is, if it is completely to be, partaking of being in regard to being a being b and of not-being in regard to being a not-being; and, on the other hand, by what is not, if in its turn what is not is completely not to be, partaking of not-being in regard to not-being a not-being and of being in regard to being a not-being.

What the fuck was Plato smoking in Parmenides?
Call me a brainlet, but I bet $1000 no one will be able to concisely explain in 1 or 2 sentences what the hell this means.