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Verbal acuity is a drug. As it improves in 20s/30s with practice, memories of your old level feel like mute incomprehension. Then when it peaks and starts to drop in 40s, it feels like worsening eyesight.
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earlier today I flipped thru these volumes, haphazardly. hard to describe how sustainedly Eliot wrote, even in the most banal context like encouraging the college poetry of a friend's son, letters marked by a desire to accurately translate inchoate emotions & prejudices to words.
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I think I’m mostly sharper. I still have times when I “hunt the word”, but that is mostly because my sense of what is needed to convey a particular meaning has grown much more demanding over time. And I think of the reader more.