Imagining

Is this empathy?  Imagining three discreet moments in three discreet lives (or rather the same moment as it materializes in individual histories, as it becomes real, as it turns from idea into experience changing everything while not really making any sort of difference) one contrasts oneself with the characters and also the characters with each other.  Difference is tolerated and otherness is permissible only when one sees both in the complexity in oneself and the intersection of our own with the contradictions of others.  The historic moment, by virtue of its shared impact and its