The Form of the Whoa!

"When did a dramatist ever envisage a bolder confrontation than that of Socrates and Alcibaides? Where did any other invent such a Yea and Nay for drama? ...The contrast of the two became arousingly creative--wrested from the thinker the form in which his profound wisdom could be thinkable. What is born is not a book--but theatre. It becomes more perfect with each new creation. Every encounter of the characters serves as an occasion--until from encounters only thoughts are born." --from Plato as Dramatist by Georg Kaiser

Thank you, Georg.
I love you despite your creepy Freudian Lack-Look-Look-Lack-PENISPENISPENIS bullshit.

It is so whimsical how I happened upon this shiny gem of an essay.
I was helping Jo rewrite her paper on Christian Metz's and Bertolt Brecht's theories as they apply to the film Suture. She's a film professor at GSU. As I sat down with her laptop, I quickly fell back into academic mode as if I had never exiled myself from erudition. Wouldn't you know that my research on this seemingly unrelated subject led me back to Plato?
In my life, all roads inevitably lead to Plato.
I suppose that's because the latent fingerprints of Platonism are everywhere, but I prefer to think of it in more mystical terms. It lends a wonderful sense of weird to the occasion, does it not?