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Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
-Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
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Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; i found a way to make it an asset. i began to sound words and see all those qualities - in a way it made words more precious to me. since so much of what happens in the world between human beings has to do with the inconsideration of language, with the imprecision of language, with language leaving our mouths unmediated, one thing which was sensuous and visceral led to, in the use of language, a moral gesture. it was about trying to use language to both exemplify and articulate what good is.
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