The Origin of Love

I love the soundtrack to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, particularly the song "The Origin of Love". In this song Hedwig tells the tale of one of the creation myths introduced in Plato's Symposium. Man and woman was once conjoined to make up a creature of two heads, four hands and four legs. The gods grew angry (threatened by the strength and defiance of these creatures) and split them into two (with Zeus' trusty lightning bolts - splitting them exactly in the middle). As the story goes, this separation did not destroy the bond between the two parts, but instead created a yearning that each one would have for the other half throughout their lifetime. The story of love; were two become one.