Will the real Hypatia please speak up.

Dear you and me,

Since we barely know ourselves, it's hardly surprising to find we don't know anyone else at all.  We pretend we do, but in our hearts we know we don't.  And just as we create ourselves on the fly, we create others; those we invest the most in are those who make us feel very good or very bad.  To some we give all the wonder we deny ourselves.  And to some we accord all we think ourselves guilty of.  Could there be anyone worse than Hitler?  Surely he was the very...