more a male vice than female vice in general what we te to look past bause we are trying to get some cind of abstractionbout them or fit th abstracon in tohem and vice versa, whereas in my view, and again, going back to my year and years of teaching but also during oral history, the real trick is to look straight into people and see them for what they are and take them for what they are and draw them out. it is a perctly obvious sort of thing, and yet to be able to manage that level of coentration effortlessly, seemingly effortlessly throughout an extremely long lifetime and studs's caisse requires deep egalitari or socialistic mentality that never stops in to the usu didacticism and laying it on heavy to people and uplifting and all the other things intellectuals are mistakenly doing. but to tt, i want to add that since i started reading "american splendor" comics in the middle 1970's, which were largely about hardee beinon street corners in clevend or with other perfectly ordinary people who would never be confused with intellectuals of any kind, were successful in any way with the exce