From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 1/23/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #23] Block Long Paragraphs
"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think." Octavio Paz
We walked to the bakery one morning, Eddy and me. It's a fine thing walking and chatting. But, by the time we reached the bakery I was frustrated. It seemed to me that we hadn't been sharing the air time very well. No one was at fault; I was sure of that as I set about attempting to work out a system for sharing air time.
Eddy is an extrovert and I'm the other vert so sharing the air time equally would be about 50% for Eddy, 30% for me and 20% for musing. So I asked Eddy to experiment with speaking in block-long paragraphs. I figure that a spoken paragraph ought to last about a city block. Much longer and it becomes too difficult to take in and mirror well. Much shorter and the texture of the talk fades to dull plastic.
Experiment: Take a walk with your partner and try speaking and mirroring in even block-long paragraphs. See how far you need to walk in order to get to understanding of something that's important to you.
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