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The Background for Good Conversation - part
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But the recognized great books do have some easily observable conversational values. They are themselves worth talking about and are often talked about. Furthermore they are regular warehouses of lively facts and incidents. Who reads Sinclair Lewis' Arrow smith or Cronin's Citadel can talk of doctors and medicine as he could not before. Who reads Keys of the Kingdom can talk better about missionaries. Who reads Norris' novels, the Octopus and The Pit, can talk of wheat and commodity speculations.
For every problem there are books, and for every theme there are novels and plays. Sometimes I think that the information we get from the novels is by far the best part of our knowledge. It seems to endure best and catch the heart of the matter better. I do not remember how many books and articles I have read about Switzerland, but when that name comes to mind what comes along with it is the vast panorama of Scott's Anne of Geierstein, read in high school. Sometimes I think that gave me the essence of Switzerland even better than my tour of that beautiful land in 1931. Oh, I hope I can convince everybody who wants to be an interesting and worthwhile conversationalist that he must have
worthwhile facts, feelings, and ideas — and that books, including especially good literature, are the readiest and greatest sources for these things.
But it would be false not to insist that after getting whatever information, whether from observation, experience, or books you must think it through, must make it your own before it will sound truly convincing in conversation. You must integrate what you see and read with your own personality before it is a finished conversational product. The person who mulls about his experiences and observations with an eternal why and wherefore, who looks for the causes of things, who tries to see their interrelations, is giving himself the finest conversational background of all. Thomas Aquinas spent months puzzling about the definition he had read of God — and became the great doctor of the Church. Thinking things through for ourselves gives us what is called originality. It helps us "to place things," as Johnson said, "in such views as they are not commonly seen in."
Perhaps when the last word is said, the greatest conversationalist is the one who comes nearest to the truth of things. And the truth comes from hard, honest, fearless thinking. Johnson's conversations, in the last analysis, live on, not because of their word order, but because of the originality of their thought. Asked about the proper training for children, Johnson remarked that a gentle bringing-up is better than a hardy and rugged one. Someone has rightly commented,
Here, at a moment's notice, are ideas of infantile hygiene being thrown off, that go far beyond the purview of the eighteenth century. It was ninety-two years after this conversation that Herbert Spencer was to rediscover, and state at considerable length, the doctrine that Johnson here condenses into two or three sentences — and in the England of 1861, Spencer was considered almost impossibly advanced (Esme Wingfield-Stratford, Good Talk [London: Lovat Dickson, 1936], p. 223).
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