It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Charles "Chuq" Von Rospach is a science fiction writer and critic, and was at one time a frequent and well-known contributor to the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written.
