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(and feel free to comment! My older posts are certainly no less relevant to the burning concerns of the day.)

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

More On About How To Learn How To Write #2, Pt.2

It was a crisp and spicy morning in early October. The lilacs and laburnums, lit with the glory-fires of autumn, hung burning and flashing in the upper air, a fairy bridge provided by kind Nature for the wingless wild things that have their homes in the tree-tops and would visit together; the larch and the pomegranate flung their purple and yellow flames in brilliant broad splashes along the slanting sweep of the woodland; the sensuous fragrance of innumerable deciduous flowers rose upon the swooning atmosphere; far in the empty sky a solitary esophagus slept upon motionless wing; everywhere brooded stillness, serenity, and the peace of God.

- from "A Double-Barreled Detective Story," Mark Twain, 1902

Now, that's just to serve as an example! Not an example of the previous point per se. Just as an example in general.

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