Yet, ironically, few of us wish to acknowledge, much less talk about, it.
Painters do not have to know what they are doing, much less talk about it, but galleristas insist on text to accompany any picture.
His mother, suddenly at the center of the maelstrom, was barely able to get through the reading of a simple statement, much less talk about her son's life.
With the exception of Woody Allen movies and, God help us, "The Prince of Tides," the psychological aberrations of men rarely attract the attention of serious filmmakers: it's still a little unseemly for males to exhibit, much less talk about, deep feelings.
One thing that has held back planning for a memorial, even as the planning for the site has accelerated, is that relatives of many victims of the attack have not even been able to bring themselves to visit ground zero, much less talk about what should go there.
That's something that most folks don't want to admit, much less talk about.
From what I've read, no one wanted to remember, much less talk about it, so the events are not as well known as other uprisings or roundups.
But the reality is that most women don't even talk about it with other women, much less talk about it with men; they just sort of live with it.
That's because they're given so little importance in the overall narrative, tossed in as third act deux ex machina at the end, that they hardly seemed worth the effort to include, much less talk about here.
