Their greatest power lies, perhaps, in their dramatic quality because much of each poem consists of conversation and speeches, in which rhetoric is kept firmly under control and the individual characters emerge as they confront each other and the gods with advice, inquiry, request, resignation, and passion.
The second, more memorable half of "Underground," which consists of conversations with Aum members, fleshes out this theme.
A fair portion of the meditations in Echoes of an Autobiography consists of conversations with a mythical seer, Sheikh al-Ta'ithth al-Ta'ith.
"Counting the Ways," a beautifully wrought series of vaudeville-style short takes separated by blackouts, consists of conversations between a husband and wife about their love.
"The people in the crumbling ivory towers of old Fort Business are missing the fact that the real action in the marketplace consists of conversations that people are interested in," Mr. Searls says.
The entire collection, which consists of conversations taped surreptitiously by the Secret Service, will be available for purchase on Feb. 2. All proceeds go to the Cutting Corporation, a Bethesda, Md., company, that reproduced the tapes.
The play consists of conversations between Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for the arrival of the mysterious Godot, who continually sends word that he will appear but who never does.
With the exception of a momentarily liberating excursion through the empty corridors, a few scenes in the principal's office, and a couple of obligatory dance sequences, the entire film consists of conversations and confrontations between and among the detained students, who assume at first that they have very little in common.
It is called The Recovery 2.0 Power Hour and consists of conversations with thought leaders with deep experience in their fields and a lot of wisdom to offer about healing from addiction and living exceptionally well.
The second aspect consists of conversations with patients.
The other two consist of conversation pieces framing shorter works and extracts.
