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...went to an academic dinner not long ago at which the subject was friendship. It might have been called something grand like "The Metaphysics of Friendship." The discussion ascended to a high altitude. The air got a little thin...
...Someone remarked: "The opposite of friendship is death." Melodramatic, I thought. But also true, up to a point. Death has many opposites, and so does friendship. At a lower metaphysical level, the opposite of friendship is loneliness, or isolation, or narcissism--all of which of course can be lethal. You could hold the death/friendship sentence up to the light and turn it in your hand and find interesting meanings glinting...
...DINNER WITH FRIENDS Two couples see their friendship go sour when one of them gets a divorce. Donald Margulies' perceptive, well-crafted, very contemporary play won the Pulitzer and is already popping up on the regional circuit...
...their relationship to progress through the steps of the student-mentor story formula: they spar at first, but gradually grow more comfortable with each other, talking, writing and dishing out pseudo-profound remarks that are far less interesting than the screenwriter must have thought. More than anything, their friendship appears to be based on simply spending time together, yammering about this and that without actually talking about anything at all compelling. Though Forrester is declared a great writer, whatever he says is unbearably trite. In one scene, he recommends to Jamal that women love to receive gifts for no reason...
...strong, instinctive stoicism draws a woman called Disa back to her Icelandic homeland to die. "Hope is the sister of self-deception," she says, knowing she has only one year to live. Yet this is not a morose novel but one lifted by love, friendship and cooking, an art Disa has spent much of her life perfecting at an English country inn. Hers is a hard, unflinching life, and one skillfully revealed in a steady stream of memories that accompanies Disa on a last migration back to her Arctic nest...