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With a partner, answer the question, how might the scenario below relate to entering into the "scholarly conversation" on a topic you are researching and writing about for this class?

The Unending Conversation

"Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress." 

-- Kenneth Burke (Literary Theorist) from Philosophy of Literary Form (1941), pp. 110-111.

            Parlor, Hotel Latham, NYC (1905). Library of Congress. Retrieved from https://loc.getarchive.net/media/parlor-hotel-latham-new-york-ny