who could prevail against it
"Who Could Prevail Against It," January 23, 2022 (#23)
title from The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (2007)
How To Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu (2010)
The Forest for the Trees: An Editors Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner (2010)
one line from Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (2003)
one line from Out of the Woods: Stories by Chris Offutt (1999)
Who Could Prevail Against It
By any standard I had been afraid for too long of anything that
made an enormous show of emptying its contents onto the
repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here,
descriptions of clearing permissions, formatting text, and
standing by the windows in my classroom, watching as the
questions of how to handle the passage of time are easier
to make a proper greeting and departure when it came to
establishing powerful networking channels, a literary
part of another normal day for someone like myself.
The reason is twofold: first, once the
haunting daguerrotype portrait that would
think a certain fearlessness in the face of your own
rotten thing to do. But on the other hand, I feel
I cut down a few streets to an old industrial building
more a friend to his authors than a taskmaster
high in the air with one hand to capture
the words every lover hopes to hear.
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