Persona

 

What is it about logorrhea that’s so disconcerting. Eloquent speakers and tyrants have prolixity in common. The core of the pathogy and what makes it so disconcerting to those who are forced to endure it, is that it’s an attack by way of imperviousness. It’s Procrustean. The speaker is mowing you down with words an intruder. Make no mistake that's the point. From the point if view of etiology you may have noticed that mourners justifiably unload their grief. Underneath the wave of sadness is also anger that you have lived while their beloved is dead.

read "Boudu Saved From Drowning" by Francis Levy (with a painting by Hallie Cohen) in The East Hampton Star