The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us
Now that I've read the whole story, I think the title is intentionally problematic.
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- Jul 2023
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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.
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Maybe there had been more ofthem, but they’d drifted off, given up, or died.
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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?
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