Take Refuge in a Book
/Retreat from the crush of communication.
Take refuge in a book. That’s the best I can offer, and I offer it with confidence that it is, indeed, the best advice you’re going to get today!
I’ve been wounded (perhaps not mortally) by the use of language over the past year to bully and frighten, cudgel and cajole the great unthinking masses. And it continues, as if neither the losers nor the winners can be satisfied with the results. It is hard to bear.
Now for the good news: I have borne it with the help of one of North America’s most fabulous novelists.
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