Here Try To Visualize Phaedrus With “His Hand, Palm Flat Out, Elbow On the Table.“

…The Narrator, introduces us to the Chairman, says how the Chairman will discredit Phaedrus, and then continues => ]
…..“Courtly, grand, with imperial magnanimity …., lays his coat down carefully, takes a chair on the opposite side of the large round table, sits, and then brings out an old pipe and stuffs it for what must be nearly a half a minute. … studies faces with a smiling hypnotic gaze, sensing the mood, but feeling it is not just right.“
…[We now hear, how Phaedrus thinks the Chairman’s will get rid of him, and how this will be done in the context of the]
…“finest in all the Dialogues of Plato“ [The Chairman, with reference to Phaedrus, will be “ … baiting him a little, provoking him to attack.“.
… [Phaedrus, who has practically memorized the Dialog, suddenly realizes how Socrates ’s questions (written by Plato) serve only to discredit the Sophists. The Narrator finishes with:]
…“ … the Chairman has completely bypassed Socrates’ description of the One and has jumped ahead to the allegory of the chariot and the horses. ....
.. TRAP! He’s using the dialogue to prove the holiness of reason! Once that’s established he can move down into enquiries of what reason is, and then, lo and behold, there we are in Aristotle’s domain again!
…Phædrus raises his hand, palm flat out, elbow on the table. Where before this hand was shaking, it is now deadly calm. Phædrus senses that he now is formally signing his own death warrant here, but knows he will sign another kind of death warrant if he takes his hand down. ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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