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So as long as it lasts, I want to write nearby Rodrigo Toscano, who pulls his Spanglish phonetic syllables apart like taffy (“tha’ vahnahnah go-een to keel joo”) or LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, who recombines black slang, Japanese, Spanish, Chamorro, and Tagalog into a remastered Afro-Futurist song (“…bubblegum kink / a Sheik’s interloper. / A radical
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Printing Office
Crossroads of Civilization
Refuge of all the arts
against the ravages of time
Armoury of fearless truth
against whispering rumour
Incessant trumpet of trade
From this place words may fly abroad
Not to perish on waves of sound
Not to vary with the writer’s hand
But fixed in time having been verified in proof
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Beatrice Warde: “First Lady of Typography” – History in the Margins
As you can tell, there is some agreement about how the book should be divided, but the translations are certainly not all uniform. Remember that editorial decisions such as dividing the book into units are intended to help the reader, but they are not inspired. If you want to do the work yourself, you need to look for changes in the text as clues t
... See moreJ. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays • Grasping God's Word
W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design (Regular Edition)
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Inverted triangle The classic newspaper-story format. Start with a grabby headline, followed by the main points, before moving to detailed information and analysis.
Roger Horberry • Read Me

“Egypt was a civilization of stone. They made their art and architecture of stone, so it lasts forever. But you can’t write on stone. So they invented papyrus and wrote on that. But papyrus is perishable. So even though their art and architecture have survived, their written records—their data—have largely disappeared.” “What about all those hierog
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Standards Manual
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