This chapter explores the intense desire and attraction that the ancient Greek poet Sappho felt towards someone across the room. The speaker discusses how Sappho's description of this desire using language of battle and epic scale is both ancient and modern, conveying a sense of the grandeur of emotions. They also discuss Sappho's fluidity and malleability as a person, and how her writings, although fragmented, continue to captivate readers.

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