Comments on: The Familiar Stranger: The Lady on the Subway http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/ a digest of fun and interesting academic research; all signal, no noise Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16847 Sat, 08 May 2010 20:33:48 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16847 I haven’t realized it until I read this article. Man there’s always this guy on the bench that I seem to pass by that almost everyday. I didn’t intend to ignore him. I just walked passed him without realizing that I had ignored him. I don’t know. Now that I think about it, there are a bundle of people like that near my hometown that I “ignore”

]]> By: Monique http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16555 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:48:07 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16555 Very interesting post. Familiar stranger are those I experience daily :-)

]]> By: Alex Mehran http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16504 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:22:55 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16504 If some one is not a total stranger to you then he/she must have a relation with you. A friendly relation or an enemy of yours. No matter how long you havent met, your meeting will sure refresh your memories. So try to be such a person that every one remembers you as a good fellow.

]]> By: sharyar http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16261 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:24:48 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-16261 it is interesting

]]> By: Geoff Dodd http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-2728 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:11:00 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-2728 Yes, I guess there is reciprocity in the relationship. Agreement not to talk. To meet. It’s sad that bus stops generate these relationships and even ATMs have ‘so much personal space’ required as you wait there….

]]> By: David http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-2594 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:21:19 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-2594 Came across this site……great idea

http://www.londontubemates.com

]]> By: Novelist http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-337 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:15:37 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-337 Ah ha! My stories almost always involve characters who are “familiar strangers” to my protagonist. The protag’s previous perception of them can be used to contrast/conflict with the stranger’s true nature as the story develops.

But tell me: is it more interesting to leave the stranger’s thoughts a mystery to the reader, and reveal the stranger’s true nature only by her actions/words,
OR
to eventually switch to the stranger’s POV and hear her actual thoughts?

]]> By: Secret Project http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-253 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:40:32 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-253 -Flea -

You, me both. I was traveling on the London Tube today and was intrigued by a book that a chap was flicking thru. He was Nigerian, the book was a compact – but thick – series of black and white sketches and as he read thru it, he did so right to left, as one would in Japan.
Forgetting the required London (British?) reserve, I asked him what it was and received an initially cold but then impassioned education on ‘Manga’ (sp?)
Fabulous.
Well worth both our initial embarrassment ;)

xx SP xx

]]> By: lazybros http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-252 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:48:48 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-252 This is surely one tasty reaserch!

“But it’s a real relationship, in which both parties have agreed to mutually ignore each other, without any implication of hostility.”

cool.

]]> By: fleas7 http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-251 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:25:03 +0000 http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/the-familiar-stranger-the-lady-on-the-subway/#comment-251 Nice observation, being a rural dweller I tend to blow it though with a warm hearted smile which is all to often met with a rather worried look away, although sometimes a smile doesn’t always go amiss.

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