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Making Sentences

Michael Preedy

Making sense of the written world

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Essay #13: Nothing else worth talking about

Question. Can we talk about books?

Answer. There’s nothing else worth talking about.

Q. Nothing?

A. If you insist on being literal-minded, you won’t follow me in our conversation - not very far, anyway.

Q. Sorry. I just -

A. It can’t l...

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By heart #09: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares

The universe works like this: when I don’t need something, that something is within reach; when I do need something, that something escapes my grasp. Because the universe is a library (as Borges says), the something I need is normally a boo...

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Public gratitude #09: Burning the Books

Thank you, Richard Ovenden

Thank you, Richard Ovenden, for writing Burning the Books.

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Essay #12: Lawn as white as driven snow

On not forgetting The Winter's Tale

To my readers: from February, you can expect six posts from Making Sentences each month. The two Essays and two Public gratitude posts will take turns appearing on Saturdays, with the two By heart posts...

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Essay #11: What does Kafka dream of?

I’m at the airport. Heathrow. No-man’s-hour in no-man’s-land. If terminal two greets you with a nod, and terminal five gives you a smile, terminal three shrugs at you, icy and silent. The flight is restoring. I read on the plane. Like every...

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