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Peter Schmader's avatar

So many of my favorite parts of a story appear between ( ). There’s something that happens within them for the writer that can’t be reached, just so, outside them. They’re rarely merely throwaway asides, I think. To me, they’re essential: “(A thought I had while composing the above: I wish there were an ampersand for or. For any number of words. If written English went a little rebusward, I’d be happy.)”

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Ken, or Kenny Genku Erickson's avatar

This line (among others) rings clear:

if you spend a lot of time imagining a person’s reaction to a present it’s probably a sign that the present is mostly about you, anyhow.

And for rebus-like text, try Swedish. Everything can be a snappy an acronym, TXT (till exempel, for example).

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