"...the '''sympotic''' purpose [is] to build through pleasure an enhanced or new friendship among participants...a distinction between the 'hot' culture of the symposium and the 'cold' [[culture]] of the [[book]]. In the symposium...the word could never be separated from the conditions of its enunciation."
From: ''A Short History of Western Performance Space''by David Wiles "When I enter an empty theatre, I feel a surge of anticipation, sensing the potential for intense human contact..."
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"...the '''sympotic''' [[purpose]] [is] to build through [[pleasure]] an enhanced or new [[friendship]] among participants...a distinction between the 'hot' [[culture]] of the [[symposium]] and the 'cold' [[culture]] of the [[book]]. In the symposium...the word could never be separated from the conditions of its enunciation."
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# Paperback: 326 pages
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From: ''A Short History of Western Performance Space''by David Wiles "When I enter an empty theatre, I feel a surge of anticipation, sensing the potential for intense human contact..." ISBN 0521012740 or ISBN 978-0521012744
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# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (November 10, 2003)
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# Language: English
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*1825 Blackw. Mag. XVII. 679 The light sympotical mode with which he [sc. Socrates] treats the most difficult points of philosophy.
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# ISBN-10: 0521012740
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*1981 Times 5 Aug. 12/6 The sympotical form is still quite distinctive of British culture from pubs to clubs.