Witching Hour Musings

[toryhitstheroad]

I don't know if this is, technically, the witching hour - but it's 2:08 in the morning and I'm sitting here in bed writing this.

"Why?", you ask.  Well, I was awoken about 45 minutes ago by what I thought was a gunshot and, in the ensuing minute or two after waking up when I was trying to work out whether I had heard a gunshot or a firecracker or a

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[prorogue]

I often find that having good conversations with interesting people is always a very enlightening experience since, in many ways, you have to bring your game up in the process - you need to think more coherently and, I find at least, you often find yourself synthesizing new ideas in the process which gestate long afterward.

I agree. Remember how airplanes used to be separated into smoking and non-smoking sections? Perhaps some genius airline exec (a rare breed if ever there was one) will offer passengers a choice of "conversing or non-conversing" seats. This may not ensure a good conversation, but it would increase the odds of having one and, at the very least, resolve some of the awkwardness of those situations where one person would like to talk while his seatmate desperately tries to think of a way out of it.