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At this time it became painfully evident to me that the topic would never subside peacefully until it had been given adequate scope in a book. You now have before you the book. In it, only the article, "Background for Conversation," was, at least in part, retained in its original form. But even at this point a feeling of inadequacy haunts me. I feel now as if every chapter should be a book, and every page a chapter. Every statement would seem to need another example. The truth is that conversation is so rich, varied, and inexhaustible that no book can completely capture it and teach it. But I do like to hope that no one will read these eleven chapters of Making Good Talk without being a livelier and more significant conversationalist for it. |
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