Stamir took the traveler to a place where he saw people in great distress and disfluency, and the man asked who they were. A representative of the group wrote a response on a piece of paper and handed it to him. Then the man was taken by Stamir to a place where everyone was attractive and full of talk. He asked who they were. Their leader, a man who spoke very carefully, answered while the others nodded.
Fluency is more than fluent speech.
We have pretended that Fluency is fluent speech, and fluent speech Fluency, and people have believed us. Therefore you, too, have until now imagined that fluent speech must be the same as Fluency. But fluent speech makes you its prisoner, as does stuttering. Then the man found himself back in the garden, with Stamir beside him. Fear of stuttering is natural.