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The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge & The Invaluable Mystery by Leshia Harford
by Helen Thomson •
Right words: A guide to English usage in Australia by Stephen Murray-Smith
by Stephen Knight •
Writing is what I love doing. There is almost nothing like it. Even playing two or three close sets of tennis will not quite compete with having a good poetic theme discover you, and then managing to nut it out, to make it chime like a bell. No wonder the French critics are so fond of talking about the jouissance of a text. When a poetic shape-and-theme I’ve been struggling with comes good, it comes like an express train. And, whether painful or pleasing, writing has become an absolute necessity, so that I grow fretful, grumpy, zany, if I haven’t written anything decent for several days.
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