Conversation as coffee
Likening conversation to ‘thick black coffee’ which you might have on the table in front of you, and you might...
Life-giving elixir
These fine-minded sisters come into an inheritance adequate to free them from having to face the economic implications of remaining...
Civilised conversation
A fine selection of subjects to talk about with a new acquaintance. This is the boy’s first (and last) encounter...
Dismissing death
Rory Stewart's father could be pithy, taciturn, and funny (without necessarily trying to be). Here his son tries to open...
Uncle, who are you?
A delightful exchange between the boy György Faludy, and a friend, or at least acquaintance, of his grandfather's. I loved...
Changing the subject
A young man in love learns a lesson in the limitations of egotism. 'She' is Maggie Tulliver, a beautiful human...
My kind of company
John Donne describes an accomplished woman with a wide-ranging capacity to converse intelligently. I like the spectrum he chose: predestination...
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