April 13, 2005
Old Friends
Or, the more things change, the more they stay the same. What is it that holds its shape between two people even as their lives change? What is it that can be called upon as shared experience even as the gulfs between two people widen? And is there perhaps always a bridge across the largest chasm, if only one knew where it was -- and what questions to ask to get there?
Deja-vu is, I think, the most fundamental human emotion, a function of the historicity of particularly human understanding. Or so I have come to believe.
Posted by David Richmond at April 13, 2005 11:19 PM EDT
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