When they played, they talked continuously.
"Nobody could speak because he was talking continuously.
They sit in automobiles and make love, and talk continuously.
Thereafter Callil tells us, "he had only one subject: Jews, about whom he talked continuously, out loud, to his dying day".
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".
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.
When I first meet him at Volt Studios not far from Dublin Port, he hobbles in on crutches, talking continuously, reeling off a list of (possibly imaginary) side projects from Fifty Years Of Hair to the Toilets.
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).
I laughed inordinately at the idea that a second-rate supervillain can always be tempted into the classic mistake of "monologuing": talking continuously about the inner sense of hurt and resentment which propelled him into villain-hood, and so giving the hero a chance to catch his breath and counter-attack.
