Tree 3: Source Material

Things are said that might seem to be nothing at all very much, but that we know without analyzing are the light or serious outpouring from intense or profound or daily and humble sources - a preference for a flower, say, is not just that but also a comment on some quality in life, some soft sweetness or cold or graceful formality, or some old romantic memory or happy or sad association. It might be some shading in the voice, some color of the tone, or the very order itself of the words or phrases, or even what is left out, not spoken at all, that expresses the thing really being said. - Stark Young