Conversation

You can divine a lot about a person's priorities and intentions - an obvious but underutilized detail - by what they want to talk about.
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Words seldom cohere to maps of meaning, whatever certain Canadian psychologists might wish to tell you. Most often, they are children of intent.
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Transitions, troughs, peaks. There are things that have changed not at all, but there are many new, weird developments. There is new intent.
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