(idea) by sensei Thu Aug 17 2000 at 22:46:30
I came across this passage inT.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. It reminded me of Saigyo's Heian era verse which I have translated as Why Be Bitter?

What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them...
...We must also remember
That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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