One thing my mother taught me was the core wisdom of writing. She told me to cleave to the concrete; to cleave to the Angol-Saxon; to cleave to the ineluctable; and to put my ass in the chair if I expected to get any writing done.

Well, what she said was "Nil die sin linea", but it amounts to the same thing.

I have never met a better set of rules, more succinctly put,. anywhere or time.

Thanks, Ma!

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