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  1. Jul 2023
    1. The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us

      Now that I've read the whole story, I think the title is intentionally problematic.

    2. My wife and I filed out with theothers, towards the gardens, in the sumptuous grounds of that magnificent estate. It had been a dreamyday of rich sunlight.

      The tone of these last two sentences is in such contrast to the previous two.

    3. Maybe there had been more ofthem, but they’d drifted off, given up, or died.

      !

    4. They weren’t at the table and they didn’t eat. They didnothing. They didn’t even come over, take a plate, and serve themselves. No one told them, to just standthere watching us eat. They did it to themselves.

      This strikes me as rationalization and ignorance. Is it driven by guilt?