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There’s a lesson for every writer these snippets. The writing is vivid^2 because the writers have looked intently at the world around them. They have seen bricks and fjords and Apple « Cinnamon Cheerios; they have seen-w cowtails and thick calves and a debutante’s ankle. They have seen a dull “Z mower and felt marble; they have, heard wet sheets in a wind. They stored £ the images in a writer’s lumberyard, ~ and when the time came, they were • ready to nail some Good Stuff together.

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