maintain their freedom or independence, and where they want to calculate even with respect to each other. But the whole point about the relationship of friendship, whether it is intellectual, social, or athletic, is that it provides at least a measure of security against the ever bustling world around us. For the security to exist, analysis must be forbidden, and the simplest method of forbidding analysis is that the relationship itself should preclude it: or putting it another way, that the relationship should come to an end if analysis is attempted.
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