Parfitt: "When someone I loved died I found it helpful to remind myself that this person was not less real because she was not real now, just as people in New Zealand aren't less real because they aren't real here.""
[Joyce Carol] Oates was grateful for the letter of condolence but unconvinced by Parfit's argument. "She compared it to trying to console an amputee that his leg was still real and existed in New Zealand.""
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