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What is involved in such [close] relationships is a form of emotional | |||||
chemistry, so far unexplained by any school of psychiatry I am aware of, that | |||||
conditions nothing so simple as a choice between the poles of attraction and | |||||
repulsion. You can meet some people thirty, forty times down the years, and | |||||
they remain amiable bystanders, like the shore lights of towns that a sailor | |||||
passes at stated times but never calls at on the regular run. Conversely, | |||||
all considerations of sex aside, you can meet some other people once or twice | |||||
and they remain permanent influences on your life. | |||||
Everyone is aware of this discrepancy between the acquaintance seen | |||||
as familiar wallpaper or instant friend. The chemical action it entails is | |||||
less worth analyzing than enjoying. At any rate, these six pieces are about | |||||
men with whom I felt an immediate sympat - to use a coining of Max Beerbohm's | |||||
more satisfactory to me than the opaque vogue word "empathy". | |||||
-- Alistair Cooke, "Six Men" |