395 WORK We might be involved in a kind of stock-taking, as opposed to simply making use of items in the stock. Thus, in our conversations we first catch that a speaker says so and so. This may be one way of avoiding a split between e.g., 'reading' and 'work'. This split is stylistic and harmful. You find yourself in a much more advantageous position seeing 'talk', 'reading', 'work', as constituents on the same map.