It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications. … - Padgett Powell

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It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.

Padgett Powell

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States. It used to be the only people who had tattoos were in the navy, in prison, or working at a carnival.

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