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The Scottish writer James Kelman described the eloquence of unlettered people with a gift for language as ‘orature’, the capacity to compel and
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
So the corpse of the present is being preserved as a record.
Chogyam Trungpa • The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma
they ventriloquized the dead man, addressing the passer-by with some clipped meditation on mortality.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
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Mick Jackson • The Underground Man
The man who went ‘Walkabout’ was making a ritual journey. He trod in the footprints of his Ancestor. He sang the Ancestor’s stanzas without changing a word or note – and so recreated the Creation.
Bruce Chatwin • The Songlines
It would have suggested many things to a philosopher to have dealings with him. To a stranger he appeared to know nothing of things in general; yet I sometimes saw in him a man whom I had not seen before, and I did not know whether he was as wise as Shakespeare or as simply ignorant as a child, whether to suspect him of a fine poetic consciousness
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