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Words, unlike movies, are not a multisensory event. Words are symbols, and symbols don't work directly on the human senses. They work secondhand, through suggestions to the reader's imagination, through words describing what you saw in your imagination.
Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends
Nancy Kress
As a dogma Methodism appears as a pitiless ideology of work. In practice, this dogma was in varying degrees softened, humanized, or modified by the needs, values, and patterns of social relationship of the community within which it was placed.
The Making of the English Working Class
E. P. Thompson
Since then, Peter Doshi somehow managed to become an associate editor of <cite>The BMJ</cite>. How this happened, I have no idea, but periodically he publishes posts for <cite>The BMJ</cite> that are—to put it kindly—far below the standards that a medical journal with the history of <cite>The BMJ</cite> should ever associate itself with.
What the heck happened to The BMJ? | Science-Based Medicine
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