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| Texas City, Texas October 2012 |
As lover you want ice to be ice and yet not melt in your hands. As reader you want knowledge to be knowledge and yet lie fixed on a written page. Such wants cannot help but pain you, at least in part, because they place you at a blind point from which you watch the object of your desire disappear into itself [...]
Plato's analogies are not flat diagrams in which one image is superimposed on another in exact correspondence. An analogy is constructed in three-dimensional space. Its images float one upon the other without convergence: there is something in between, something paradoxical: Eros.
- Anne Carson, from a chapter entitled Something Serious Is Missing
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