Phaedrus and a hole in reality

Trying to choose a connection for this reading was difficult.  I started with a memetic line from Lord of the Rings, thought about the picture I found on facebook, failed to adequately connect Phaedrus to Kingdom Hearts (not because there isn't a connection, it's just that the connection was too fluid), felt that the Fable games would better connect, but then came back to the picture.  This is an image by Ben Heine. Heine plays with the idea of melding drawings and photography into a kind of new art. 

There are a number of connections I can make to this image and our readings.  The first connection connects the readings to the art from itself. If the drawing represent rhetoric (because the truth of a drawing is more relative) and the photograph represents philosophy, the combination represents the new way of arguing (with myth).  This isn't to say that philosophy + rhetoric = myth, but that, by examining the failures experienced in Gorgias, Plato/Socrates tries to develop a new more complete way of persuasion.

Taking the image out of the context of the art form I can see this image as Plato/Socrates' attempt at his new form of persuasion.  Socrates has a little more respect and appreciation for rhetoric in Phaedrus than he did in Gorgias and he tries his hand at it when Lysias' persuasion is inadequate.  I see Socrates attempt at rhetoric as the drawing.  There is a little philosophy in his speech, which I mark as the black lines of this cartoon that are defined enough to tell the image's story but not so defined as to make an unquestionable truth of this image, but he keeps to the fluidity of rhetoric (which I consider the white space with many possibilities) then he adds myth, the lovely hole in this image.

In both of these views, you could echo Bernard-Donals' description of rhetoric and philosophy as two sides of "the same coin."

A different way to see this image is how it reflects the way that writing has ripped a hole in the previous communication practices of Socrates' time which gives their world a new view on life.  However, like writing, these cartoon characters are unable to question, enter, or explore our world, which reflects the problem that Socrates has with writing's ability to defend the author's ideas.