... for the other, the recurrent energy that maintains the vital tension of life. He finds an evocative allegory in mythology, in Aristophanes' tale in the Symposium of love's origin, which speaks of a primal unity of life, later splintered by the gods into difference, incompleteness, and desire: "Man's original body having ... been thus cut in two, each half yearned for the half from which it had been severed" (Plato 61). "Shall we follow the hint given us ... that primal scene of separation in a recovered memory of his own and Vaillant's departure from home, and in a language strangely s...

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... legal protection from the injuries caused by discrimination, and it forbids reinstatement of these laws and policies. (Strasser) Sexual orientation is not a new concept. Plato alluded to the acceptance of homosexuality when he described the effectiveness and power of the "pederasty" in Symposium, "If only there were a way to start a city or an army made up of lovers and the boys they ... love! Theirs would be the best possible system of society ." (Kaplan) Plato's statement accepts homosexuality as well as describing the homosexuals as having a quality that builds strong ... activity, ...

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