December 19, 2005

• Conversation,
  continued

  
  From last night:

  “There is an
  underlying timelessness

  in the basic conversation

  that is mathematics.”

  – Barry Mazur (pdf)

  From today’s New York Times:

  “The authors of the etiquette book The Art of Civilized Conversation
  say that conversation’s versatility makes it ‘the Swiss Army knife of
  social skills.’”

  Then there is
  the broken beer bottle
  school of etiquette:

  

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