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The "self and other" register.(First Person)

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| October 01, 2007 | Gould, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. 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

TWO NIGHTS AGO, in those small hours good for self-interrogation, I went through the inventory of my acquaintance and tried to assess the quality of my attention to their otherness in each case. As I did so, in the back of my mind there was an older interrogation, the occasion of a car-ride to London in 1973 when my combative Anglican uncle ambushed me with the enquiry, Yes, dear boy, but where is the place for Christ in your life?

I liked my uncle. My father and all his brothers had the gift for taking a lively curiosity in human difference, but Uncle S pursued his enquiries with a pepperiness all his own. He was a kind man, but also a Gladstonian evangelist, ...

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