Ah, well, that's the point--nobody's perfect, are they?
Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Who is or what is, "The Perfect Stranger"?
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>> I don't know how much the concept of the Lacanian "Other" applies here,
>> as Stephen V suggested. There is the personal, individual Other, in
>> which one sees fragments of oneself in another's individual's language
>> or body or presence (and the ability, too, to see that Other reflected
>> in the self), and this clearly has wider cultural ramifications as well.
>> But the first, I think, provides more freedom for personal experience,
>> since there are far more individuals than there are cultural groups. But
>> maybe I'm just being cranky.
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