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Plato's Symposium

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Eryxistophanes - A Poet-Taster

Eryximachus is kind of a poet-taster, right? A bad poet of love. He's just basically serving as irony and ironic point. So he cures Eryxistophanes of his hiccups with the feather trick; we get a myth. And now, you know, I'm going to tell the story. You might see it as I'm just making jokes, right? Because I'm the comedian, so you might laugh at me. But he's like, I'm trying to do justice to what we're doing here. We're trying to get praise of love. It's not meant to be funny if it makes you laugh all the better

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