内容摘要 Whenever two friends meet after a long separation, they go through a specialGreeting Ritual. During the first moment of the reunion they amplify their friendlysignals to super-friendly signals. They smile and touch, often embrace and kiss,and generally behave more intimately and expansively than usual. They do thisbecause they have to make up for lost time: lost friendship time. While they havebeen apart it has been impossible for them to send the hundreds of small, minute-by-minute friendly signals to each other that their relationship requires, and theyhave, so to speak, built up a backlog of these signals. This backlog amounts to a gestural debt that must be repaid without delay, asan assurance that the bond of friendship has not waned but has survived the passageof time spent apart: hence the gushing ceremonies of the reunion scene, whichmust try to pay off this debt in a single outburst of activity. Once the Greet...
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