from Middlesex

[underherskin]

Plato's Symposium:

People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Comments

[thecosmicjoke]

You've seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch, right?

I can't wait to read this book.

[combatadam]

"plato was fat, socrates was ugly, and arisotle was a prissy dresser"
david gale

love you leeeeesha

[anonymous]

lovely quote
- steph