Disaster can permanently dissolve the loneliness separating neighbors.
Evidence
Never even when the four walls of one’s own room in a new city shall close around us again shall we sense the old lonesomeness shutting us off from our neighbors. Never again shall we feel singled out by fate for the hardships and ill luck that’s going. And that is the sweetness and the gladness of the earthquake and the fire. Not of bravery nor of strength, nor of a new city, but of a new inclusiveness. The joy in the other fellow. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 466
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The quoted survivor voice (Pauline Jacobson, 1906 earthquake) supports Odell’s irreversibility claim with a historical example — good evidence for the reader’s defense.