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Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

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The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is ...more

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Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ord...more

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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted...more

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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.