Comments | vestals_lot: Symposium

vestals_lot

Symposium

Mar 01, 2006 13:26

Today in class, my professor read aloud an excerpt from Plato's Symposium that he had wanted read at his wedding. Sitting there, listening to the passage, I wanted to cry. I fell apart, right there in class ( Read more... )

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shanito March 1 2006, 15:17:22 UTC

That was one of my favorite Stocking lectures last year. I rather enjoy the Greek's view of love.

Case in Point: The Sappho tattoo in the orginal Greek on my back. Way to go, Greeks!

vestals_lot March 1 2006, 15:24:00 UTC

No kidding right? It's amazing. By the way, is the translation of your tattoo (the one you put in your LJ anyway) your own translation? Because it's by far my favorite.

shanito March 1 2006, 16:03:30 UTC

It's a combo of my two favorite translations. I've heard countless translations for the passage, but it's a combo of Stocking's translation and a translation I found in a Sappho book.

vestals_lot March 1 2006, 17:09:58 UTC

I really like it. There's obviously a lot lost in translation, and that translation, to me, seems as close to the original as I've seen. I am just so excited by this class. :)

superrosie14 March 1 2006, 17:37:13 UTC

Way cool, Addle.

_holler_at_me March 1 2006, 20:36:27 UTC

That's fantastic, but, I mean, I hate to be the one to bring you back to reality, but, you know, it's just this:

Love is a concept invented by the Roses/Card/Chocolate industry. It's actually a giant conspiracy that Hollywood bought into early on. If you look at older civilizations, married couples were just together for social reasons and husbands and even wives had other suitors. It was all about the sex! Eros! Now those fucking merchants and their industries have gone and complicated it all with these silly notions of love.

I'm telling you, just stay away from the whole idea. It's just a fabrication anyway.

vestals_lot March 1 2006, 21:40:57 UTC

Thanks Captain Cynic! :) I'll hold onto my lovely fairy tale endings thank you very much.

closebutn0cigar March 2 2006, 13:05:02 UTC

if love is simply a fabrication my friend.... then why exactly do you feel it so strongly? :) And don't try to combat my logic because you know I am right.

Half of a whole closebutn0cigar March 2 2006, 13:03:33 UTC

"The first time I saw you, we were just split in two... you were looking at me, and I was looking at you. You had a way so familiar, but I could not recognize because you had blood on your face and I had blood in my eyes. But I could tell from your expression that the pain down in your soul was the same was the one down in mine." -Hedwig ( ... )

Re: Half of a whole vestals_lot March 2 2006, 15:06:14 UTC

That is my absolute favorite, favorite part of the song. Some of us choose to wipe the blood away, some, for fear of seeing, choose to leave it there.

You are part of what makes me feel whole Chelsea. I love you.

Re: Half of a whole closebutn0cigar March 2 2006, 19:59:39 UTC

I love you MORE. Ha ha, winner. :)