The selections from Plato for this week struck me as being a more natural form of dialogue. The reason is that _Gorgias_ is set up much like a play without stage directions. One person speaks and then the other. _Protagoras_ and _Symposium_ both have a more narrative structure--albeit a narrative that is driven still by dialogue. Rather than just what was said, we get a limited narrative of how people responded. We see the audience cheering. We see Socrates seemingly momentarily stumped.