Time for Eros?
Ah, my first blog post! I recently finished Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet . She writes about Lysias' speech of the non-lover in Plato's Phaedrus , and how that speech derives its power by looking at the love affair not from the moment of inception, but from the moment of or after its dissolution. As she says, "Lysias looks at a love affair from the point of view of the end," but "[n]o one in love really believes love will end." Today, I was reading the comic strip Luann , which had Luann telling an Australian foreign exchange student she likes, "There's no point in starting something if you're just going to go back to Australia." Ah, the sober prudence of the American teenage girl, who will not sacrifice her precious adolescent years in pursuit of something that can only be fleeting and temporary, however otherwise pleasant and enjoyable it may otherwise be, when there is not even the possibility of a happily ever after to t...
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