AustLit

'The article offers the author's insight on his friend whom he called the conversationalist. He states that the conversationalist is interested the way they converse and spend most of his free time in coffee shops, trains, and bars listening to the conversations of other people. He mentions that the conversationalist makes gentle corrections and improvements to a certain person's conversation. He adds that phrases in their conversations were called dead prayers by the conversationalist.' (Publisher's abstract)