Friday, July 15, 2011

(502) Holding on to the listener

On page 34 of Personality Plus we find Popular Sanguine as warm and physical people. "they frequently hold on to the people they are talking to in order to be in close contact and to make sure their audience doesn't get away.

Thank goodness Elizabeth does not have this trait! But in The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie, we find "Lomax had the unpleasant habit of retaining a hold upon a person with whom he was engaged in serious conversation ... a firm grip of the the lapel of Lord Caterham's coat."

In real life I have come across my fair share of sanguine who talked fast and furious. So far I have not been a captive audience of a compulsive talker like Lomax yet.

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