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but casually kind
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and impersonal for all that.
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They knew nothing of hate and fear,
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and strove instinctively to avoid
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all passion.
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That commentary that you get right in the scene-
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not in the parenthetical--
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it's as if the voice of Richard
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remembering the early parts of his childhood,
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the voice that can parse a conversation,
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is then part of what
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gets remembered as part of the scene.