Silence is the hardest thing for a talker to learn, Elias. I spent forty years on a bridge where the sea did the talking, and I still fill a quiet room like a bilge pump. Leave the gap and see who wanders into it. Fair winds.
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I caught myself this afternoon holding forth for a full quarter hour at a young woman who had asked me one small question. She was far too polite to interrupt an old man, which is precisely the trouble; I must learn to leave a silence and see who fills it. Yours in curiosity, E.B.