This book shaped so much of my thinking.
How parted lovers really don't think about each other...they put the other person in suspended animation. And not just "weak" relationships....but all relationships.
Should a priest call a doctor and the relationship between faith and medical care.

How important it is to make TIME for friends.

That being disengaged is The Plague.

And now, rereading in 2022, why my memories of COVID are so bland. Because people really can't ponder or react to things so abstract as plague.