The world is interesting. I'll talk and write about a book I read, a film I saw, something in the news and media or what's happening in the community. But I can go on, forgetting my interests are not necessarily shared by others. In that case they might find me verbose and a bore. One time I expounded about economic development to an intern and master’s graduate in economics, a subject I had expertise in having a post-graduate degree in economics myself. After a few minutes I saw the panic in her eyes as she tried to extricate herself from my one-on-one informal lecture. But, as often happens, I couldn’t stop or didn’t know how to stop without looking like a fool. Other times my audience, usually of one, might change the subject, show signs of restlessness or moving off or I get the point and stop, the words petering off . Don’t get the wrong idea, this doesn’t happen all the time but often enough. For articles it’s a simple matter for the reader to stop reading o...