/lit/ - Literature

>>16142681
Care to explain these passages, friend?

>O rare! I caught a sight of the inwards of his garment, and took the flame. Then I could no longer contain myself. I thought how well Cydias understood the nature of love, when, in speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one "not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him," for I felt that I had been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite. But I controlled myself, and when he asked me if I knew the cure of the headache, I answered, but with an effort, that I did know.
Socrates, in 'Charmides'
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/charmides.html

>Com. Where do you come from, Socrates? And yet I need hardly ask the question, for I know that you have been in chase of the fair Alcibiades. I saw the day before yesterday; and he had got a beard like a man-and he is a man, as I may tell you in your ear. But I thought that he was still very charming.
>Soc. What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says 'Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?' And that is now the charm of Alcibiades.
>Com. Well, and how do matters proceed? Have you been visiting him, and was he gracious to you?
>Soc. Yes, I thought that he was very gracious; and especially to-day, for I have just come from him, and he has been helping me in an argument. But shall I tell you a strange thing? I paid no attention to him, and several times I quite forgot that he was present.
>Com. What is the meaning of this? Has anything happened between you and him? For surely you cannot have discovered a fairer love than he is; certainly not in this city of Athens.
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/protagoras.html

>>8353148
>cultural marxism
>real