Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
--Rebecca West
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This morning I took our senior cat Charlie to the vet for his monthly arthritis shot. L. ordered an induction range (on sale!) for our retir...
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As I said on New Year's Day, one of my projects for the year is to keep track of all the reading done by the characters in the fiction t...
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Books Read in 2022 (In backwards order) The Snow Hare. Paul Lichtarowicz “He’s Very Well Read.” Catherine Lacey A Psalm for the Wild-Built....
I love this idea. Thanks for sharing it.
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Mystery Writing is Murder
I was looking at the photo album I just made of vacation pictures and rejecting "a picture's worth a thousand words" in favor of your quotation, which is more accurate. Already (in a week) some of those experiences have started to fade. A picture is, at best, a memory jog. Not an account of the experience...
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