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As you sit around the pool, the conversation will inevitably turn to how much you paid.
Around the hotel pool, the conversation was not about movies, but -- what else? -- guest lists and yachts.
A veil of privacy drops over each bather at the indoor pool and conversation is quiet; a local man we met reads Zane Grey novels while soaking in the 96-degree water.
Standing around on the lawn next to the swimming pool, the conversation turned to how cultures and traditions were disappearing in Mali with nothing coming along to replace them.
The suit claims Mirande, 43, took deliberate actions to befriend the swimmer and establish an emotional connection with her away from the pool through telephone conversations and text messages of a sexual nature.
The first image that comes to mind is classical: spaces reserved especially for Socrates, surrounded by Alcibiades and other lovely, clever youths, lying naked by the pool, engaged in conversations about the nature of virtue or of love.
And despite the fence and conversations about pool safety, despite everything we had done to ensure the safety of our children, our youngest child had wandered inside toward the pool.
Scott McClellan keeps a list on his desk of ideas of ways to provide more access to Bush, many suggested by reporters — a radio roundtable interview, more one-on-one interviews, more conversations with pool correspondents.
But for the independent soul whose idea of a good time is a quiet read, a soak in the pool and no unwanted conversations or interruptions, the absence of hotel trappings can be a relief.
We set off for the pool in deep conversation and I can't help giggle that I am living my own version of the Celestine Prophecy.
