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magazine. If in reporting the exceptional and helpful he also adds interpretation and thought, he is a literary magazine, he is in fact live literature. All this means that a good conversationalist must see what is going on, must note what is out of the ordinary, and must try to relate it to common problems. Anything new and better is especially good conversational grist. A new way to prepare spinach, to polish a car, to attach storm windows, to get roses to grow — these are the observer's quarry and the talker's prizes. Similarly anything antique or odd, an ancient log house, a curiously twisted tree, a singularly beautiful altar, a rare old book are the conversational catches of the good observer. A good talker does not look at everything; he sees what has news value, what is interesting and worth while, and he remembers it. |
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