One of the precious oddities of life: meeting someone, having just one (often apparently innocuous-at-the-time) conversation with them, and still thinking regularly about that conversation years or decades later. Like a comet passing through your life.
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But you're not going to tell us why you think about it very few weeks?! (I read the wikipedia entry, interesting distinctions). You're killing us here


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He changed my mind about several things. I expect many people on Twitter would disagree with his position (and my changed positions), and want to argue. And Twitter argument is, IMO, usually boring and annoying.
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There's a wonderful line in Yeats's THE MUNICIPAL GALLERY REVISITED, one of my favorite poems about friendship and the effect others can have on us, to that effect (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-municipal-gallery-revisited/ …):pic.twitter.com/90mtATWJX8
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That's lovely.
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Half of everything is luck.
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Any strategies you’ve adopted to expose yourself to more of this kind of serendipity?
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