how many times rereading symposium is too many times rereading symposium because i had an insane anachronistic crossover dream where Alcibiades was a femboy with golden hair and glass skin doing a 18-step glass skincare routine at a wine rave hosted by party boy mark antony and curio was there too and i started heckling Socrates (who was just in the corner chilling feeding a goat pomegranates) for insinuating women somehow had lesser capabilities for virtue and he was like dude Pausanias says things on behalf of....Pausanias. and i was so embarrased but then he namedropped diotima and i was like so sure he just made her up to not sound like he was soapboxing and the flute girl made a cameo but she was playing technobagpipe? it was a very disorienting dream i believe i extracted alcibiades's skincare secrets in his drunken stupor it was some sort of serum i couldnt remember when I awoke i also think i tried his toner which was made from wine but it turned me into a cicada kafka-style
