¶ Conversation Sequence (1)
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Conversation Sequence:
"The most unselfish of the arts is the art of intelligent conversation— when you really give.
*(This is what Margaret Fuller meant, though she didn’t quite say it that way.)
"In that kind of conversation you don’t hold back; you don’t save some gem back to surprise the world with in your next book.
"It’s like a dance. As Allegra says, you can never dance that dance again. It’s so ephemeral you can’t put it in words. Like names for things… There’s a map of Washington, but that’s just a word. You can see the Earth from the Moon. Or you can see from a satellite an enormous whirl of clouds over the Atlantic. It doesn’t matter what you call it; it’s an energetic transformation event of Universe transpiring utterly independent of man’s continuous contriving.
"Phenomenon without name = pattern integrity. The power of Universe is locked up in it. But man feels he has it under control when he calls it something-- like Hurricane Carol…
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA at breakfast, 3200 Idaho, NW, 22 Sep’73
