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Letter From The Desert: l'inutilité des mots

Letter From The Desert: l'inutilité des mots

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Chris Clarke
Nov 02, 2018
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It has been a few weeks since I’ve sent one of these. I have felt some reluctance to write. I have lately been considering the possibility that we need not more words but fewer. Words to distract, words to condescend, words to wound. We have more than enough of such words.

The slightest tremor of a yellowing cottonwood leaf.

Words to persuade, words to ca…

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