girl speak his name, he looked up quickly and found her very wide-opened eyes peering int

he syllables issued from her lips, he noticed that a singular after-sound-an exceedingly soft yet vibrant overtone-accompanied it. The syllables

d. "Please look straight at me, straig

, if ever so slig

..." h

ctly and very slowly," she said, her

e original overtones awakened by her speaking of his own name. It was wonderful ... exquisite ... delicious. He uttered it again, and then heard that she, too, was uttering his at the same moment. Ea

ich exists behind the spoken sound and is independent of its means of manifestation. Their central beings, screened and limited behind their names,

robin

iam.