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I say, I say, I say - it's good to talk

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From: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
Date: 20061209
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Instead of oiling the cogs of conversation, technology contrives to dumb it down

IN HIS essay, Talk and Talkers, Robert Louis Stevenson expounds the virtues of conversation, claiming it to be the highest of arts, surpassing even literature - "Literature in many of its branches is no other than the shadow of good talk; but the imitation falls far short of the original in life, freedom and effect". And if Stevenson's great works of literature are just the shadows of good talk, how brilliant to have been part of the conversation. Perhaps that's where his fixation with duality stems from (most ...

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