ABSTRACT
COMMENTARY BY IRWIN Z. HOFFMAN Finding oneself reected in the sensibility and writings of another is an unusual, validating, and sometimes even uncanny experience. It’s more than just nding certain points of agreement. Sometimes the wording, the ow of ideas, or the combination of thoughts and feelings yields something more than that, something hard to describe. ere is a sense of a whole that is more than the sum of its parts and of a match between that whole and oneself. In fact, that sense of connection is not overridden by certain points of disagreement because the overall spirit of the other’s perspective seems so like one’s own.
