Alicia - A girl walked up to me once and told me that she loved theatre as much as I did. After a brief conversation, I realized that she thought of theatre as sitting in an audience watching an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, while I thought theatre to be a group of friends working hard to put on a piece by Tennessee Williams. The chapter and the incident both reminded me that the thoughts I associate with words are not always what others mean.

Jessie - This past summer I took a course in Israel. Our guide was a master at communicating his point . . . "Look with me to the left of us. Do you see the Mount of Temptation Hotel? Now look at the roof. Do you see the set of colonnades? Move your eyes across the colonnade. Do you see the one lone palm tree? Everyone see it? Look at the top of the palm and to the right. Do you see the barren mound of earth? That is where Jericho's hippodrome is." Rarely did we not know what our guide was speaking about. He had taken a landscape full of "information" and "noise" and, through words, narrowed the wealth to one spot. That is the reduction of entropy.