(Re)-reading without Writing?

At the heart of the Phaedrus lies a performative contradiction. On the one hand, Socrates lambasts writing, and on the other hand, he depends on writing for re-reading, in both a literal and figurative sense. Socrates has Phaedrus re-read the beginning of Lysias’ speech twice (262d, 263e), and in so doing demonstrates the power of re-reading all kinds of speeches.