The purpose of attention is to know a thing thoroughly. The purpose of getting attention is to be known thoroughly. But we re afraid of that. I d say most wives have got thousands of attentions but have never got any attention because attention is knowledge in a straight line, and that is hard to give. Further, the wives haven t given it.
Attention implies a certain kind of concentration.
Attention means that you re able to look at something and, while not neglecting other things, not use those things to interfere. Most often when we look at something, without our knowing, we interfere with what we are looking at. We don t want to see it entirely. And anytime we do look at something, it is likely that the way we want that thing to be will put a haze, a contempt haze, around the object. Since marriage begins with the desire of two people not so much to see each other but to accommodate themselves to each other, they never really see each other.