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Penelope Mavor suggests that listening is not a passive act, so you could interrupt the flowThese conversational hoggers … don’t they know we were born with two ears and one mouth for a reason? Thank you, Anita Chaudhuri, for a fun, well observed and useful article (‘But enough about you …’ How to survive in a world of monologuists, interrupters and trauma dumpers, 13 September).It is an interesting reflection to see which of the five hoggers more frequently turn up in our own lives. As a people

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