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It would be like recommending a movie to someone you know, seeing it again yourself, but this time interpreting it the way you think they would interpret it. That is learning character parts, as using the interpretive psychology of another person for interpreting the world yourself.

I had a real cast of characters, from my town, from my school, to all the people in my town and church, and a factory, and the army and Europe, and now a whole new cast of characters. And that is only the reality characters, and not the movie and TV or book characters. The book characters were a another story, if you got into the deeper thinkers. I started with Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and The Stranger by Albert Camus, as recommended by Hegel my nemesis become friend, then did the some of the Beatniks especially On The Road by Kerouac, any number of the heavy duty philosophers like Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and on, then into Thoreau, Poe, Twain, the classics, and then seems I am unable to remember all the people I read.

It could be said then I had a lot of character personas to interpret my own world with, as I lived it. Suppose what I did was use random character comparison whatever the present circumstance might remind me, like when walking in the city, passing a building with a Mediterranean feel, I might flash to characters from Greece. With my reference library of characters I could do a lot of character comparison. But with the epiphany, I could now change the values of the characters by believing whatever I wanted. Previously the characters were definitive with fixed values of class, status, money, education, friends, notoriety or power.

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