Doubled Neighbours
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Dec 2002
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ArchD'Ikon Zibethicus — 28 Dec 2002, 09:49

Tom:

> Maybe I'm just stating the obvious here, but the "doubled" people
> seem right out of Aristophanes speech in the _Symposium_.

Funny; haven't been around Urth much the last couple of days, but this 
possiblity was nagging at me this very morning...the text states, however, 
that the Platonic people were _round_ and _double-faced_, but I guess that 
it's a serviceable analogy if you drop those details...and why not?

->Zx<-


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