Wishing our words were tactile,we speak of them like textiles:Dressed-up tales are madeout of whole cloth.A fibber fabricatesas if his lie were a linen.Text is cut from Latin: to weave,what tellers do with tales.A good yarn has many threadsand few loose ends.A well-suited phrase becomesa threadbare . . . . Continue Reading »
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