The Banquet
"In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut evryone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided into just male and female, the upshot being that people spent there time running around trying to locate their missing other half." Plato again.
I've never read Plato but these quotes keep finding me wanting. It's just another romantic ideal though isn't it, the idea that you have another half... and how would you know except in retrospect when perfection has passed?
I've never read Plato but these quotes keep finding me wanting. It's just another romantic ideal though isn't it, the idea that you have another half... and how would you know except in retrospect when perfection has passed?