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the symposium - by adorasv - the pillow book

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thinking about bodies

The Bride’s Toilet, Amrita Sher-Gil. National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. When the boys start talking about Plato you keep your mouth shut. Years down the road when your lives have added up to something, you hope, and they interview you for a magazine profile (there’s a whole genre of these: Sasha and Beto, Sheila and Barack), you’ll say that you were content to let him play the star, you didn’t have anything to say about The Symposium anyway, and he and his housemate with the giant law books did. You hope you make a good sponge, that listening to other people will make up for your lack…

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