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     Two persons, separated only by a wall, cannot hear the sounds produced by the other, they are near physically, but may as well be separated by a sea as they are unable to communicate. Enter a third body, someone even farther from the first than the second is, yet by some arrangement they are able to communicate with the first, making these two infinitely more connected than the first and the second. This is better illustrated through my real life situation. The bedrooms of my father and I are joined by a single wall, and though we are near, we never hear the ruckus of the other. My brother's room, separated from by mine by a whole story, finds itself connected much more intimately to my own. By grace of our home's ventilation system, I can hear his ruckus, and he mine. A similar relation is found in this age of internet, two strangers as far from each other as any two humans have ever been, could be joined quite closely by a path in the world wide web, and in contrast be disconnected from, and foreign, to their own neighbors.