Readings of Dialogue in Alex Miller's The Ancestor Game

Last night I was on the phone for an hour to a friend, talking at first about trivialities, including the obligatory how-was-your-day question which initiated my enthusiastic comments on Edward Said's recent book, Culture and Imperialism, that I had just been reading; ending the conversation in tension and disagreements about, to me at least, unknown discrepancies which surprised me and scared my friend, or so she said. Scared, perhaps, both because of my enthusiasm and the ideas to which I had been referring.