The Internet is behind much of this automated logorrhea; by distributing ever more information cheaply and easily, it provides more things to print out.Several hundred million e-mails are exchanged each day in America alone, and most recipients keep hard copies of some of the more important ones.
Beneath the logorrhea lurks a shared fear of aging and death: the voices brood over nursing homes, those "high-profit corrals" full of "wheelchair circles".
What he did, he did very well, but a real case of logorrhea.
The architect Rem Koolhaas, in a preface to the Obrist compendium "dontstopdontstopdontstop," writes, "Usually those afflicted with logorrhea do not stimulate others to communicate; in his case, he rushes to let others do the talking".
Jimmy Cayne rose on the power of his ability to trade and read people — he was a world-class bridge player — but Gladwell points out that Cayne's decisions near the end (like a huge stock buyback) were miscalibrated and his logorrhea in front of Cohan stemmed from a belief that he could control his image and his interrogator.
On our other side, a Beats-obsessed young man suffered his fifth hour of logorrhea — begging for Nocturnalist's pillow in spontaneous bop when he wasn't writing us a disturbing poem and shoving it into our sleeping bag.
No comedy-sketch atmosphere would be complete, of course, without a dose of Joe Biden's logorrhea: "I think it requires a little bit of humility," he ruminated at one point, "to be able to know what the American people think, and I don't.
Written by Mike O'Malley and originally performed as a 2003 play — which is woefully apparent from the flavorless visuals and the characters' exhausting logorrhea — the story centers on a young couple navigating a mandatory church retreat.
His pitch is true, and he works to make his vocal melodies jump over harmonically static backgrounds, but he uses a woozy-sounding digital filter to destabilize the experience of hearing him; he jabbers and shouts, stuffing syllables into the lines, childlike outsider-art logorrhea about fruit ("Applesauce") and long-distance communication ("Mercury Man").
And there are videos edited by Mr. Escalante, including Soviet agitprop animation and a black-and-white close-up of his own beard, lips, teeth and mouth as he performs a section of that classic of female logorrhea, Beckett's "Not I".
