Plotinus's student edited his unreadable manuscripts into the Enneads

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The absolute mastermind of Neoplatonism had terrible eyesight and completely refused to review his own wildly complex manuscripts. It was left to his intensely stressed pupil, Porphyry, to take a massive pile of disjointed, chaotic philosophical ramblings and heavily edit them into a readable format called the Enneads. Without an incredibly patient editor, the foundation of Western mysticism would just be illegible scribbles.