The idea of a speaker knowing what a person will say to them beforehand and responding to that actually comes up in a passage of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, where it’s mentioned that Kublai Khan and Marco Polo have entire conversations by just imagining what the other would say. Similarly, most of the book is just Marco Polo describing the cities he’s seen, even if that is quite different from the kind of rant described here.
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