Television is a medium which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and yet remain lonesome.
-TS Eliot
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Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Look out for Cold Rivers and Icebergs
As a former iceberg member, with the lucky Bondi number 703, I am impressed with this thoughtful story filled with so many colou=rful questions. You can leave things out and the reader will still get them? It made no sense. Why writers need to remember the Titanic
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water ... Because the power of a story comes from what's not in it
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