In our conversations, whether it be a serious intellectual disagreement, a drunken rambling quarrel, a gross and tragic misunderstanding of each other,
a comic, farcical misconstraul of each others motives; a deep and penetrating interchange of views; a trivial exchange of gossip; or a verbal struggle to dominate each other, we are the actors and the joint authors of our conversation - working out in agreement and disagreement, in subplots, digressions, our modes of production.
Our conversations have beginnings, middles and endings just as in literary works. The actors (us) suffer setbacks and triumphs as we move from beginning to middle to end.
So, next time you strike up a conversation with someone...remember, you are an author.
Source Alisdair |Macintrye After Virtue
a comic, farcical misconstraul of each others motives; a deep and penetrating interchange of views; a trivial exchange of gossip; or a verbal struggle to dominate each other, we are the actors and the joint authors of our conversation - working out in agreement and disagreement, in subplots, digressions, our modes of production.
Our conversations have beginnings, middles and endings just as in literary works. The actors (us) suffer setbacks and triumphs as we move from beginning to middle to end.
So, next time you strike up a conversation with someone...remember, you are an author.
Source Alisdair |Macintrye After Virtue
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