Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts, was a voluble conversationalist when artists and writers visited her Paris apartment in the 1920s and 1930s.
Form google dict., voluble means <em></em><span><em>Speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently.</em></span>
the inevitability of aging the characters. Lazarus and granny are both old Lazarus is quite aged.
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