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- From: Bathsheba.Grossman@launchpad.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman)
- Subject: Re: Talking to shy friends?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.063650.8061@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:36:50 GMT
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- In article <lmb4f4INN8v3@news.bbn.com> pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) writes:
- >The quickest way to turn _this_ shy guy into a talker is to be an
- >outspoken kind of person. So long, of course, as one pauses when one
- >talks, so I can butt in with a comment. I prefer conversations with
- >a good strong ebb and flo, even though my shyness makes be incapable
- >of initiating one.
-
- I'll vouch for that, and he's not the only one. Even with very skittish
- persons, a shameless, brakeless slide into some bizarrely tangential topic
- can do wonders. It's a great opportunity for pure, recreational, freestyle
- thinking too: once you start shaking out and correlating all that
- well-compartmentalized data, really interesting information often falls out.
-
- -Sheba (Wait! That pullulating, chartreuse, aurora-like luminescence in the
- north, can it be? Yes! It's Peter's Pickle!)
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