September 6, 2008

  • 饗宴

    "It was their very essence that had been split in two, so each half missed its other half and tried to be with it; they threw their arms around each other in an embrace and longed to be grafted together. As a result, because they refused to do anything without their other halves, they died of starvation and general apathy."

    Plato: Symposium 191a, Aristophanes' Speech on Love.
     (Translated by Robin Waterfield, OUP 1994)