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As a guy who talks too fast and looks at the floor, I can relate:

He speaks very, very fast and very, very quietly and he tends, certainly with people he doesn’t know, to stare anywhere but at the person. I talk very, very fast and very, very quietly and don’t stare at people either. So there were two guys – one of us could have left the table and the other would never have known it.

 So Alan Ayckbourn on Stephen Sondheim.  Mrs. Buce asks: when you do that, are you talking to anyone but yourself?  Good question.