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    The First Party

    By Alfonso Borello

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    A quorum of influential thinkers set stage for a memorable drinking party circa 380 B.C.
    Between arguments and a garden variety of layers of wisdom the genesis of platonic love is revealed. It also becomes known that males are more intelligent, hence more attractive, that all men come from the sun, all women from the earth, the androgynous from the moon, and lesbians became so because of whatever was taken away from them when Zeus chopped them in half.

    Well, who said that philosophers are boring?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfonso Borello
    Release dateJan 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301062058
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    Alfonso Borello

    Alfonso Borello has written drama, thrillers, travel diaries, biographies, and essays on history, religion, philosophy, psychology, evolution, cosmos, revolutionaries, inventors, and numerous books on language learning in Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Thai.

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