The Flow of Conversation

Right now, I am reading Wicked, the blasphemous book that supposedly ruins "The Wizard of Oz". Now that I have finished the...interesting.... first section (those of you who have read it know well of what I am alluding to), I am starting to enjoy the story. It is a well thought out interpretation of Oz. Little snippets pop up here and there that are quite deep. Mostly I would pass over them with little thought or the occasional, "hmmm, that's nice" or, "hmmm, hadn't thought of that." Then I ran into one sentence that perfectly explains one of the things that I have been trying to explain about myself for years. The sentence goes like this:
"Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversation was the flow."
In an earlier post I had said that I would come up with ideas as I was speaking or writing, that was not entirely true. I have to be speaking with someone or chatting with someone online for the ideas to flow. Peculiar. I have always tried to figure out why this anomaly occurred. This sentence seems to have answered that, sure I come up with ideas, but they are ideas that I had never thought about within myself, much less figured out if I believed them.
For example; one day I was talking with, for the sake of ambiguity, Bobette (a girl). We were talking about the Trinity and souls and minds and all that good stuff after she read the bit in Chapter One about listening to the mind. Writing that bit, I had made it seem as if the mind and self were two separate entities. While explaining this to Bobette, I started spouting stuff about the human body, soul, and mind being separate and coinciding with the Holy Trinity; the soul is like the Holy Spirit, the Body in like the Son, and the Mind is like the Father. Then, on a whim and with no forethought, said that this was so because God made Man in his image, thus with three separate parts. I talked to someone later about this and gave up the notion for a reason that at the time was a good one but I can't for the life of me remember what the heck it was. The point is, however, that entire idea was formed as I talked. Why? Looking back, I wanted to keep the flow of the conversation intact. The train was to stay on track and endure to its destination.

Have you ever started a conversation with one subject and ended with a subject completely unrelated, then, just for kicks, followed your conversation backwards to see the progression? I have, and some of the things that can be associated with each other are pretty wild. It all has to do with Flow. One subject leads to another leads to another leads to another. No one wants to stay on one subject if a new one has already been started. Flow, it makes you think of previously un-conceived notions and relate completely unrelated subjects.
Yet, in my opinion, flow is a purely aesthetic facet of conversation. It is merely something that is pleasing to the ear. Ideas and Expressions can live on without it, yet have an easier time coming across with it.the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" is an apt example.

The dish ran away with the spoon
The little dog laughed to see such fun
The Cat and the Fiddle
The Cow jumped over the moon
Hey Diddle Diddle

Here, you see that all of the images in the rhyme are there, yet, it doesn't seem right. It's a mish-mosh of unrelated images. But when put back into normal order;

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

The rhyme seems to make sense, all of the images are in some way associated with each other. The Flow makes all the difference. The rhyming and the syllables change the flow into a murmuring brook instead of a stagnant puddle getting churned by every car that happens to pass through it.
Even this blog post has surprised me with its flow. I started from a sentence in a book and ended with some nursery rhyme. I had not planned any of this beforehand, it just seemed to fit together. Now that I have typed all this, I'm not quite sure if I believe it myself. I think I do, but that's just because I came up with it in accordance to the flow of the piece.I guess I'll ruminate on it without the flow messing with me to see if any of this actually makes the least bit of sense. Until Next time;
Ai W. Ell