Auraist: picking the best-written books

Auraist: picking the best-written books

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'If a sentence takes an hour or a day or a week to find the form for, that’s fine': Han Smith on prose style

'If a sentence takes an hour or a day or a week to find the form for, that’s fine': Han Smith on prose style

Detailed discussion of sentence-building by the author of Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking

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