(thinks) sympathy is wrong...it makes me feel...well its not helpful...condescending...its not a positive thing at all...makes me feel pathetic and powerless and now it makes me angry".
I thought with sympathy of Flaubert's biographers, whose prose has to share a page with passages from the master.
Perhaps as a result, it's been easy for our culture to think of sympathy for our fellow creatures as a childish thing.
(Either that, or he has some scenario in which he thinks that sympathy for victims causes more rapists to attack women, or more women to walk in dark alleys).
When you are insulted, when you are told that endless conversations about liberty do not include control of your own body, when it becomes clear that a politician views the crisis of a woman who has just been raped as an abstraction, you begin to think about sympathy, and its limits.
I suppose this disagreement could be seen, if cynically, as a bit of a turf war over who gets to be the boss of "affordable" supply in London, but I think my sympathies lie more with Bennett than with Orr.
I think my sympathies and instincts naturally gravitate toward it.
Cecil Beaton, who dressed them both, found the older Hepburn to be the egomaniac of all time, whereas the younger one possessed, he thought, a waifish, poignant sympathy.
(Roberts, Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas are believed to be philosophically in step with the government's position, whereas David Souter, Stephen Breyer, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are thought to be in sympathy with the states).
Darlan was classic French military, imperious and entitled, and was thought to have Nazi sympathies.
