All day yesterday she read a new kind of writing called poems. Some of them she read aloud. In places they… — Walter Tevis
All day yesterday she read a new kind of writing called poems. Some of them she read aloud. In places they were like chess—incomprehensible—and in other places they said strange and interesting things.
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When literacy died, so had history.
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