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"{s}he was impatient with the situation that young and old these days had inherited: that of being without sufficient time to talk, really talk, to each other or listen. say you were at some sort of unusual event- a house party, and you found yourself next to an ancient anthropologist who just casually said, "well, when i was in afghanistan in the thirties...blah blah blah." What did you do? what you wanted to do was grab her by the collar and drag her home and sit her down in a big comfy armchair and sit at her feet for a week while she talked. at the party the most you were likely to get was a sly anecdote about travel by camel and lack of roads. it was maddening."
-alice walker, temple of my familiar
-alice walker, temple of my familiar