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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

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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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