Ah, but the trick is to remain in some way or other part of the ties that bind: our humanness. Read Solzhenitsyn, who tries to find the common bond with the jailor who stares at him, or St. Paul, who claims that we no longer look at people "according to the flesh." Of course this is far from friendship, but it may be the cause of friendship.
Ah, but the trick is to remain in some way or other part of the ties that bind: our humanness.
I can but she no longer thinks that I am human.