Both Uses of
platonic
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- You ought to make it a dialogue, don't you know, like the Platonic dialogues Wilde wrote.†
Chpt 9 *
- First it was strictly Platonic till nature intervened and an attachment sprang up between them till bit by bit matters came to a climax and the matter became the talk of the town till the staggering blow came as a welcome intelligence to not a few evildisposed, however, who were resolved upon encompassing his downfall though the thing was public property all along though not to anything like the sensational extent that it subsequently blossomed into.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(platonic) a loving relationship or feeling that does not have a sexual aspect