The Harrises, on the other hand, have always been constant talkers, not so much for the sake of entertainment or information but because if a silence caught and held for too long they might have fallen into a bottomless sullen discord, a frozen mutual quietude that could never be broken because there never had been and never would be a shared topic of sufficient reviving urgency {not at least one either of his parents could bear to broach}, and so they needed to hydroplane forward together on an ever-replenished slick of remark and opinion, of ritualized disinclination {You know, I've never trusted that man} and long-familiar enthusiasms {I know Chinese food is filthy, but I just don't care}.
( Michael Cunningham )
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