11. The natural apartness relation of the real numbers is then the disjunction of its natural pseudo-order. 12. The old sense of apartness has all but evaporated since the TGV rail line was completed about a decade ago. 13. Sigmund Freud called this " the narcissism of minor differences " _ the tendency in conflict to stress apartness . 14. There is, however, a thin line between apartness and hubris, one of the fatal character flaws in Greek tragedy. 15. Mayako Kubo's " Bach Variations " addressed the problem of melding acoustic and taped sound by celebrating their apartness . 16. But to insist on that sense of apartness once you're inside the building is to overlook what kind of place this is. 17. The word " apartheid " means " apartness " in Afrikaans, one of the official languages of South Africa. 18. The latter inequality being true because we assume d " 3 " } } ( otherwise the quantitative apartness can be trivially established ). 19. Over several sessions in the mediator's office _ anywhere from 6 to 20 hours _ the partners work out the terms of their apartness . 20. Set in the same world as " Apartness " but farther in the future where an alien civilization, the Mikin, have made contact with Earth.
