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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: E who wrote (56227)8/31/2002 8:42:22 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I know many people here much better than I know the
people who have lived across the road from us for twenty years.

More accurately, you know character they present to the SI environment. That certainly has some relationship to the "real" person, but nobody knows how much. As to the person who lived across the road for twenty years, you presumably had some idea of the kind of people they were, whether they were movie stars or farmers, whether they were crippled of deaf, whether they put pink flamingoes on their lawn or flew a battery of US flags.

You know none of these things about the people on SI, other than those you have met in person. They may SAY things about themselves, but you don't know whether those are true or inventions.

Sometimes I think I know people from books better than I know people in real life. And in some sense, I do. But I always have to remember that the person who created them was a real person, but that the character is not and never has existed in actual life.

It's like that here.
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