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Plato · Symposium

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Plato’s Symposium. Pursuit of the whole. Neighbor on the Lineage, not a hidden 42.

Anselm Feuerbach's Plato's Symposium, the drinking party welcoming Alcibiades.

PaintingAnselm FeuerbachPUBLIC DOMAIN

A named ancestor of the love walk. Aristophanes’ halves. Ficino later. Not a verse numbered 42. Tolkien and Lewis sit beside the strip as keepers of long memory, not as forced 42-math.

What it supports

A received dialogue the Book already walks. Culture, checkable.

What it does not

Not Plato’s secret integer. The dialogue is on the Lineage as a neighbor.

ExactnessAuthored use

FormOther form

Unitdialogue

Strengthattested

Source

Plato, Symposium

Owner

The Book of 42