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The Long Sentence and Why We Stopped Trusting It
Somewhere between the telegram and the timeline, we decided that clarity meant brevity. It doesn’t. A case for the clause that keeps going.
Mara Ellison·28 Aug 2026
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What the River Remembers: notes on writing slowly in a hurried age
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