22 NOVEMBER 2008, page 28

Don’t Confuse Conversation With Dialogue Or Quips

Catherine Blyth says that conversation is an art: its essence is the acrobatic business of reading and changing minds — talking with people, not at them H ow would you feel if......

T He Other Day, The 9.56 Bus To The Nearest Train

station was late and the people at the stop — of whom I was by far the youngest — began to grumble a little. Then, looming out of the mist, appeared the driver. ‘I’m sorry, the......