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Notes from the workbench. Love, will, desire, and the mechanics by which a person actually changes — held long enough to be looked at properly. I am not interested in one modality. I am interested in what moves the thing.

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  Agape

  Two classically taught forms of love get filed under one word. One is built on lack and runs on the distance between you and what you want. The other is built on fullness and runs on what it already has. A comparative reading of Diotima's Eros against Agape — and what it costs the Beloved to be treated as a rung on a ladder.

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