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| September 01, 2006 | Gross, John | COPYRIGHT 2006 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Joseph Epstein

Friendship: An Expos&

Houghton Mifflin, 288 pages, $24

A magazine I used to read once ran a competition for creative misprints. The prize went to a reader who transformed a stanza in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by adding a single letter to a single word; in the doctored version, the Mariner was compared to

 
      one, that on a lonesome road 
   Doth walk in fear and dread, 
   And having once turned round walks on 
   And turns no more his head; 
   Because he knows, a frightful friend 
   Doth close behind him tread.

Ah yes, many of us will know what it is to be pursued by a frightful friend. Friendship can ...

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