Sustained mutual looking discloses another as unfathomably real

Evidence

Then, seemingly out of the blue, he asks Collin and Miles to stand and look at each other without speaking. Initially sheepish, the two oblige, and what follows is a long, weird, magical moment. The camera cuts back and forth, but we can have no idea what each is seeing in the other. This opacity reflects the experience each might be having of the other as an unfathomable, undeniably real being. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 418

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: An instance of attention as world-constitution and respect for the other, foreshadowing the chapter’s central argument about what attention to others entails.