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memory has flown into my room while reading how enjoyed Clavijo y Fajardo, when after visiting a dozen frivolous and inconsequential gatherings, came at last to one that filled him with satisfaction:
"Never spoke tertuliantes two at once and none was allowed to degenerate into disputes the conversation. This gathering was the school where I learned in six months longer than I had been taught in college "
(Clavijo y Fajardo, The Thinker , 1762)
And then I was silent, staring out the window. I seemed to hear the calm voice of Carmiña , so fond of the talk, to grieve for not finding willing partners:
" Friends, I want to meet you a little. But I escondéis between gestures, among mountains of gestures and words. I you throw your words to teach each other what you know, like if you show your teeth. Perhaps you have ever known that pure pleasure of giving words, listen to the other gives us. But you will gradually forgetting . "
(Carmen Martín Gaite," Your haste ")
Later, after lowering the blinds, I heard another voice, deeper and old, who has suggested that I better end this post now, because your words give us the best excuse to keep talking, if you will, behind the scenes of this page:
" The kiln tests the potter's vessels; / Test of man is his conversation. / well cultivated tree is known by its fruit, / and the heart of man by the expression of their thoughts "
( Ecclesiastical , 27, 6-7)
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