Status Updates From Eros the Bittersweet

starting it from the beginning bc i don’t think i’ve touched it since paris. allison ill finish it this time i promise

Have 2 put this on pause bc it was due back 😣

'Eros is always a story in which lover, beloved and the difference between them interact.'

tbh i love how the spatial elements of eros are described in this essay – really makes you think about the geometric aspect of yearning / reaching

'Eros is always a story in which lover, beloved and the difference between them interact.'

tbh i love how the spatial elements of eros are described in this essay – really makes you think about the geometric aspect of yearning / reaching

'Lysias is appalled by the paradox of desire and crosses it out: for him every erotic ‘now’ is the beginning of an end, and no more. He prefers a changeless, unending ‘then.’ But Sokrates looks at the paradoxical moment called ‘now’ and notices a curious movement taking place there. At the point where the soul begins itself, a blind point seems to open out. Into the blind point ‘then’ disappears.'

wowwww

'From that moment on, the story is largely up to you, but the beginning is not. In this realization lies the critical difference between Sokrates’ and Lysias’ erotic thinking. Sokrates has Phaedrus search Lysias’ logos for a beginning, in vain, to make a point. The beginning is not fictive. It cannot be placed in the control of a writer or reader.'