BBartlet
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.
You are an oratorical snob.
BBartlet
Yes, and God loves me for it.
You said he was sending you to hell.
BBartlet
For other stuff, not for this.
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