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Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the…
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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
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Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
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People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the…
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To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to…
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Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may…
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Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.
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Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with…
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RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to…
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Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how…
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Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel…
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Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,…
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Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely…
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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some…
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No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
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