They sit in automobiles and make love, and talk continuously.
Unlike in Washington, though, where senators can use procedural devices to delay proceedings without actually speaking on the floor, Texas filibusters require senators to remain on their feet at all times, and to talk continuously.
Even there, in the salons of Kenneth Rexroth and Robert Duncan, Ginsberg was seen less as a poet than a "character", one who could "talk continuously seventy hours from park to pad, bar to Bellevue" (again from Howl).
On Sunday, the incoming Republican chairman of the committee, Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, said in an interview with Fox News that the United States would "have to talk, talk continuously to South Korea, to North Korea, to Japan, be heavily engaged".
Re "In Battle Over Texas Abortion Bill, Senator's Stand Catches the Limelight" (news article, June 27): While I admire the stamina and determination of State Senator Wendy Davis, isn't it a little ridiculous that the fate of a piece of legislation could depend on the ability of a single legislator to stand without support and to talk continuously for hours and hours without even a bathroom break?
On the other hand, while this is a field that likes to talk continuously about learning, it is striking how little of substance is said on the topic.
