I enjoyed Norah Vincent's column [Last Word, August 20], but there was a minor error. She quotes Plato as theorizing about the two sexes looking for their other half, when in truth Plato was talking about a banquet that the Athenian poet Agathon was giving to celebrate a drama prize he had won. Everyone was giving his version of what the word love meant, and Aristophanes' version is the one Norah quoted.
Cleatus J. Hodges, Fincastle, Va.
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