the listener who makes the saying possible — "I think you just did it…"

Hal, who can't be understood by anyone, begs the one person who receives him for an answer, reduced to "two big ears, listening" — and Mario's reply is that there is nothing left to do, because the confession was the doing. Saying the buried thing aloud to someone who takes it without judgment is itself the whole action; the listener didn't solve Hal's problem, the act of being finally heard did.