Carolina QuotesWhat we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.
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Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 39
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- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
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- 2011
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