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Conversing is pulsing.

:- Doug.

Conversing is gathering.

:- Doug.

We have nothing More to do but be together.

:- Doug.

NB: Folds do not shatter our mirrors—we are more pliable than we dreamed.

:- Doug.

Conversation is more than tool: it is also interweaving, interbecoming, intermixing of genes and memes.

:- Doug.

What mirrors and folds are held up to us by Assistive/Artificial Intelligence?

:- Doug.

Meeting has the feel, the draw, of home, Mom, womb—M sounds and to a lesser extent, H sounds. It does not seem to draw to a dreamed former idyllic time, but to some possible new place and effort beyond now.

:- Doug.

What then is the province of meeting? What is its work?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2308

Consider the limits you cannot overcome. Things you cannot learn. Tasks at which you will never adequately succeed. Meetings where you have your stand and your friend takes hers. Where joy comes against tragedy comes once more against impossible joy. Where your sinews give their last—and then life spits in your face. Where you must decide. It is here—yes?—where you might gain your whole life.

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Conversation is woven out of a rich basket of conscious and non-conscious yarns. Some indeed are the silk of tall tales, stories, and dreams, waking or otherwise. Some are shorn from the backs of passing sheep and goats. What’s in your basket?

:- Doug.

Meeting is the basis of oral culture.

:- Doug.

There are no linear climactic plots in real life. The same is true of conversation. Instead, each takes the form of an epic.

:- Doug.