Overheard Starbuck

"He says he can't understand what women are saying. Men on the other hand are perfectly comprehensible."
"Is he losing his hearing?... Some kind of weird aphasia?
"Agnosia."
---"Gesundheit."
"He said it happened when he was about 12 years old. One day he just noticed that when women and girls talked they no longer made sense. In fact the sounds they made hardly resembled speech at all. Instead of words and sentences, all he's able to hear from women is this strange music--their songs--everything from the harshest dissonance to the sweetest melodies."
---"But no words, no facts, no information?"
"He hard a hard time in school after that but I've never seen him without at least one girlfriend or another."