'A reader who buys or reads a book to associate themselves with it definitely needs a therapeutic intervention': Julian Evans on prose style

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—‘The darkness has no planes or dimensions, I can’t tell if it’s going up or down or side to side or how far, it is without form, and void; and darkness is on the face of the Black Sea, and on the city and the Starosinna bus station’: the opening pages of Julian Evans’s memoir Undefeatable.

—’my writing life has been dedicated to showing that windiness the door’: Evans’s discussion of prose style.

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