Another thing about grandmother was her believe that a conversation consisted of someone else listening to… — Terry Pratchett
Another thing about grandmother was her believe that a conversation consisted of someone else listening to her talking, so even mild interruptions seem to her to be some strange, puzzling inversion of the natural order of things, like pigs flying. It baffled her.
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