People
It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
— Tom Stoppard · Arcadia
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This complains, with a wink, that affection lands in all the wrong places, everywhere except where it would be deserved or convenient. Calling that a flaw in God's sense of humour turns heartache into a cosmic joke about bad aim.
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