Problems of Involvement and Detachment

Old Lady: Are you not prejudiced ? Author: Madame, rarely will you meet a more prejudiced man nor one who {ells himself he keeps his mind more open. But cannot that be because one part of our mind, that svhich we act with, becomes prejudiced through experience, and still we keep another part completely open to observe and judge with ? Old Lady: Sir, I do not know. Athor: Madame, neither do I and it may well be that we are talking nonsense. Old Lady: That is an odd term and one I did not encounter in my youth. Athor: Madame, we apply the term now to describe unsoundness in abstract conversation, or, indeed, any overmetaphysical tendency in speech. Old Lady: I must learn to use these terms correctly. E. Hemingway, Death in the afternoon.