*The Symposium

The Symposium -Plato (translated by Christopher Gill and Desmond Lee)
2 books in a row on Love, whose parents, according to Plato, are Poverty, a drunk beggar woman, and Resource, the wily son of Invention, who conceived a child to put the Gods in order and make poets of men. I wasn’t expecting such a tipsy, homoerotic text. Nor, a sarcastic eulogy of Socrates.
“All human beings are pregnant in body and mind.”
“Yes, sexual intercourse between men and women is a kind of birth.”