The “You too?” moment. “Friendship arises [when two] companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which . . . till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’ . . . It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings . . . they share their vision—it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude.”
