The Craft

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Words
Make
Sentences

Sentences make paragraphs.

Paragraphs make passages. That is, they do eventually. It takes some great deal of work to make one paragraph, so it is by extension that it takes some great deal of work to make a passage of them.

Work
Time

and Space.

To write in letters or words.
Sentences or paragraphs.

A lot
Or a very little.

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People

Write in sentences
Or lines.

We
Call
Them
Poets.

Many people write in paragraphs. They take longer to say what they want to, but no less effectively. We call them authors, I guess. I mean, poets can be authors, too, but they’re never called “author” when “poet” will suffice.

Both of these groups are writers.

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Epistolaries are works of letters.
Not the same letters, though.

I want to write
A letter of letters.

“
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Is how it would begin.
Or maybe:

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Whom would it concern?
I suppose it doesn’t really matter.
But I am curious.

Maybe it’s you?
Why do you read?
How
Do you read?

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Do we write in letters?