“Pardon me,” Mein Herr respectfully replied, “I did not say ‘small-talk’. I said ‘conversation’. All such topics as the weather, or politics, or local gossip, are unknown among us. They are either vapid or controversial. What we need for conversation is a topic of interest and of novelty.”
— The complete illustrated Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll (Page 543)
(Quote from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded)
That definitely sounds lovely for some of us...