What Queequeg Said As We Hoisted the Boats

Upon hearing of my pairing Hobbes with Darwin on the nature of the human condition and the struggle for existence, Queequeg coughed and wiggled out, "Yuh don' mean yur channelin' Anaximander?" Upon looking at Queequeg with deliberate non-comprehension, he remoeved from his pocket a folded piece of paper, which when I opened it revealed three different versions of Anaximanders view of the necessity of destruction (also some god-awful looking snot on that piece of paper that it appears Q. used to wipe his nose).

"Simplicius referring to Anaximander:
And the source of coming-to-be for existing things is that into which destruction, too, happens 'according to necessity; for they pay penalty and retribution to each other for their injustice according to the assessment of Time,' as he describes it in these rather poetical terms."

"Hippolytus (unfortunate name) referring to Anaximander:
This nature is eternal and unageing, and it also surrounds all the worlds. He talks of Time as though coming-to-be and existence and destruciton were limited."

"Plutarch referring to Anaximander:
He declared that destruction, and much earlier coming-to-be, happen from infinite ages, since they are all occurring in cycles."

If this is a case, then we can draw a "nice" line from Anaximander to Hobbes to Darwin to Borges, "The Circular Ruins."

Now, what am I going to do with Q.'s snot-rag?