Antiphon: Deep Conversations

A conversation is not a question. It is an arc. Every deck of conversation cards has the same problem: the cards have nothing to do with each other. You draw a shallow one, then a devastating one, then a shallow one. There is no shape, and a conversation without a shape does not go anywhere. Antiphon does not deal cards. It builds the shape. WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES Tell it who is at the table — how many of you, how well you know each other, how long you have, how loud the room is, and whether you are sitting, standing or walking. It then composes an arc of moves: • It opens with something concrete and cheap. Nobody is exposed in the first minute. • It warms up in small steps. • It turns once — a single jump into something that matters. Once, not five times: five is an interrogation. • It goes as deep as your table can go, and no deeper. Strangers get a ceiling. Old friends do not. • And…