Omnivorous writes:
So now a dead man I never met, with whom I disagreed passionately about so much, haunts my landscape.
When he was still alive, I often felt that we would get along well in real life. The same applies to Faith and some of the other more vociferous crazies around here.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, including intellectual distance. Sometimes it's easier to feel empathy for the starving and downtrodden on the other side of the world than the ones in our own back yard - and sometimes maybe it's easier to like people you disagree with fundamentally than people you niggle with over details.
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