Everyday conversation
For me,“daily conversation” sounds like a pretty tall order because it sends tendrils out to the entire universe of human experience and expectation. It requires a large vocabulary, a flexible grammar, a quick mind and an intellectual curiosity about widely varying concepts. My everyday conversation can easily include:
· fur;
. English grammar;
· Kryptonite;
· the existence and nature of God;
· plasma physics;
· felt;
· old girlfriends;
· tuna fish;
· First World War shipwrecks;
· shopping at the dollar store;
· U.S. presidential politics;
· You Tube;
· common house dust;
· the weather forecast;
· Stanley Cup standings;
· fleas and lice;
· Don Knots’movies;
· HIV;
· cement;
· the Period Table;
· international tourism;
· rock music;
· Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book;
· the Greeks’victory over the Persians at Marathon;
· UFOs;
· Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations;
· ink;
· the love letters of Abelard and Heloise;
· Aztecs;
· anarchy in Somalia;
· chafing underwear;
· Apartheid;
· homework;
· silk and the worms that produce it;
· volcanoes;
· the thermostat setting;
· school teacher pensions;
· Monty Python’s Flying Circus;
· the necessity to buy new toothpaste;
· Aspartame;
· midwifery;
· parchment;
· corsets;
· relativity;
· Lisa Webb; and,
· Eva Braun.
Then it’s lunchtime.
(I have a wide range of interests. I like to think about everything all the time in order to make sense of the Big Picture through integration and thereby discover the proper way to live like a true human being. It’s an ongoing project. I will report back to my home planet when my conclusions are reached.)