Jean-Jacques comes through at last.

[teiresias]

At least in one respect, I think Rousseau may have been right: the drive to be recognized by another whom we ourselves recognize as an equal is one of the most powerful in the human psyche.

The slow, profound shock engendered by this recognition is the most precious feeling in all of my experience, if only because it is so sadly, beautifully rare.

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[driftwoodsun.livejournal.com]

He's right so incredibly rarely, but when he is, he tends to be dead-on.

[akaten.livejournal.com]

And how fitting, really, that you and priorysion should have been the ones to make me realize it.

[zeblith.livejournal.com]

That gives me chills.

[queueball.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've heard that's true. ;-)

[akaten.livejournal.com]

;) I do need to read all of those at some point.