Quiet withdrawal can end a friendship without any declared break

Evidence

After their failure of mutual comprehension, Heidegger and Jaspers never met again. There was no decision to make a final break; it just happened that way. Once, when Heidegger heard that Jaspers was passing through Freiburg in 1950, he asked for his train time so he could meet him on the platform, at least to shake hands. Jaspers did not reply. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 618

Categorization

• XREF: The small, unannounced rupture between these two thinkers resonates with the reader’s interest in decorum and unspoken gesture toward the dead and the living.