Carolina QuotesBefore the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.
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Source
Chapter 1, Why Sentences?, p. 2
- work
- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
- year
- 2011
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- p. 2
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