Today I’m going to throw at you some exposition: how do you do it right? how do you do it wrong? do you want to do it at all? I’m going to toss regular posts right out the window and just blow your mind with a bunch of gorgeous, classical, profound exposition by one of the great masters of the English language, the magnificent Melville Davisson Post.
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The bracing influence of a holy cause has been tremendously overrated.
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Hatred is big when one is young.
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The terrible justice of good faith & fair dealing is but dimly understood.
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Dismount & sit on the earth whenever you have grave matters to consider.
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Slowly arrange the proper sequence of a distant memory.
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A taunt sinks in as oil sinks into cloth.
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How cruelly it hurts, the first jamming against the granite door-posts of the world.
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The loneliness of the vast, empty earth—forgotten in the rush of sunshine—is the constant loom of the mystery.
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Who can say what might climb up over the rim of the world?
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Against the strange shapes of darkness, an axe is but a little weapon.
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I wish you a happy voyage to the cloud island.