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Sound Words
Essays, letters, and books on Scripture, language, and the two religions of the human heart; written slowly, set carefully, and meant to be read the way they were made: at length, by lamplight.
Retain the standard of sound words. 2 Timothy 1:13
The catalog
No 001
The Serpent's Dialect
Article · A natural history of manipulation · 35 min
One o'clock on Sunday, and the dining room has gone bomb-disposal quiet.
No 002
Smooth Words
Letter · A photograph, a boat, a garden, and a king's house · 9 min
I want to tell you about a photograph, a boat, a garden, and a king's house. Somewhere in the middle of them you are going to meet yourself.
No 003
Plato's Nursery
Book · Two blueprints for human society, and the laboratory record of the second · Now serializing · V of XII
They thought they had found the morgue.
No 004
Ordinary Work
Series · Four sessions on calling, idleness, and idolatry
Between the ditch of idleness and the ditch of idolatry runs a narrow road called Tuesday.
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