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Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes tells a myth about the origin of love, which says that we all used to be double what we are now, round beings with four arms, and two heads, and two sets of reproductive organs, until Zeus split us all in half. Why is God always an abusive father?”

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“The Symposium that's sure that's always good”
books like Lysis ; Symposium ; Gorgias
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