Sublime

In a true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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Dialogue is a skill best learned by people who enjoy talking and listening to others—particularly listening, picking up the accents, rhythms, dialect, and slang of various groups. Loners such as Lovecraft often write it badly, or with the care of someone who is composing in a language other than his or her native tongue. I don’t know if contemporar

Dialogue is the most pictorial component of ordinary prose.* Even veteran writers have to work on the mechanics of dialogue. A good conversation on the page can look like a tennis match. One swings. The other swings back. No speaker attributions. Just the ball of dialogue going back and forth.

When people engage in dialogue, they genuinely open themselves up to each other's ideas and perspectives, allowing room for new, unforeseen, ideas to emerge.

But talking about race rarely gets to the heart of the matter. The talk is crippled by fear, shame, hurt, anger, politeness, posturing, self-censorship, self-flagellation, and the inability of flawed human beings to rise to the subject’s huge demands. No one says what they think when the setting is a university classroom, an anti-bias training sess