were each quite alone in the world and that everyone else existed only for our sakes.[58] This illusion had made us blind to one another.[59] To be sure, we had nothing to reproach each other about. Our views and the concepts of honor and decency that we had learned from our parents were the same. In fact, we even felt a certain attraction, and certainly we respected each other.[60] And yet neither of us could stand the other’s presence. Each of us thought the other was getting in his way and should