It's a rare attempt to make visible something that we take for granted: a new kind of cognition, inflected by passion, that allows strangers to think out loud, solving mysteries together.
For whatever reason I have a need for strangers to think good things of me.
It cuts through the bullshit and gets to the cold hard truth of humanity all over Instagram: all we really want is for strangers to think we're attractive. .
Strangely moving as it was to stand silently with strangers in the desert at night, all gazing fixedly on the sky, it was stranger still to think that a lunar pattern that recurs so rarely could have been perceived by a preliterate community whose average individual life span would have barely embraced two cycles.
And stranger still to think that once I left Scotland because it didn't feel welcoming to me, because people were always asking me where I was from, because it wasn't easy to be openly gay; and now I find myself longing to return to Scotland because it feels the safe place.
Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House (and no stranger to risk), thinks a daringly clear agenda would act as a rallying point for America's centre-right majority and could appeal to a decisive 55% of voters, not just a narrow 51%.
As fans of Hopper and "Stranger Things," we like to think so.
Even if you were carrying a commemorative Dolly Parton mirror, a tube of K-Y Jelly and anything else off the list of clichés the writers of Will and Grace based their show on, strangers are still going to think you're gay because of the purse.
"I think that if you throw out the fact that he is a cop — take it out of your mind that he is a cop, and you have a cop who would rape a woman, a stranger like that — you have to think it is not a one-time thing," said one law enforcement member who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing.
Hearing a complete stranger say: "You'll have to think of us all at West Acre as your family now," to a bunch of 13-year-olds who have just been abandoned by their parents for 12 weeks, is not the strongest of starts.
