Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday, 19 July 2020

On Aristophanes' Myth of Love

in Plato's Symposium.

Our "other halves"
if not suppressed inside us
may well be truly other.

We don't have anything to guide us -
except our tendency to smother...

(This did not impress my stuffy tutor
in his stuffy room at my stuffy university
from which I dropped out in the early nineteen-sixties.)

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