What does "The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine go make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness." mean?

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lane. i attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. i have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. algernon. good heavens! is marriage so demoralising as that? this excerpt best illustrates which feature of a comedy of manners?

What’s the difference between extract and abstract as nouns and verbs?

Iam trying to  get  a call through to san francisco. (send, put)