Wednesday, 07/02/2008 - 8:49 pm
by Angela Wilson
Book Tour: How To Use Conversation As a Seductive Tool by Ellen T. White
“The ideal of conversation, which managed to marry lightheartedness with depth, elegance with pleasure, and the search for truth with a tolerant respect for the opinions of others, has never lost its appeal,” writes Benedetta Craveri in The Age of Conversation. I’m totally with her on this, but isn’t it getting hard to pull off these days? Surely you’ve been a guest at dinner parties where everyone talks at once. Or on a date that feels like a Senate filibuster? How about the gathering where a few are glued to the television or Internet—or worse, the cell phone. What ever happened to leisurely conversation, that great give-and-take, where folks talked without fear of being cut off? “The opposite of talking isn’t listening,” says writer Fran Lebowitz, “it’s waiting your turn.” Why not be the woman who brings back conversation as a seduction tool?
