Tuesday, April 19, 2022

P is for Phaedra

I was born right along with A Symposium in Space, named after one of the guests in The Symposium, by Plato. I became the narrator of our particular tale, due to Phaedrus being one of Socrates’s students. I was learning from Sokrat, a wandering philosopher while journeying to find myself, hoping I’d find answers at Agathea’s symposium. The scribbler decided to make me close to Pausania, so I could question and clash with Pausania’s often uncompromising prejudices and sense of romance. I’m often both charmed and angry at Pausania, a paradox I find myself often confronted with in our relationship. I listen to her, yet I’m not necessarily taken in by her. You might say I was the voice of the scribbler herself when she wrote A Symposium in Space. A naive voice who doesn’t quite understand the world she’s in. The scribbler is often baffled by the professional world of writing, overwhelmed by social media and tech. I expressed her bewilderment, her feeling of being out of step. I’m learning. I’m questioning. I’ve never stopped doing either. Come, if you’d like to join me on my journey…

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