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Writing as Transformation
Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.
The surprise at the end, as the thought completed itself, seemed wildly exciting: the whole sentence needed to be reëxperienced in this light; waves of unexpected revelations and insights resulted. If kitty cats liked roastbeef bones,And doggies sipped up milk;If elephants walked round the townAll dressed in purest silk;If robins went out coasting,They slid down crying whee,If all this happened to be true,Then where would people be? We made up stories, and he wrote them down on pieces of paper folded to make books; afterward, when the writing had been completed, my sister and I drew illustrations in the large spaces left for them.
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