Repeating a prefix or suffix does more than
show that words are doing the same work in a sentence. It forces the reader
to see their association. This gives sentences cadence and pace.
Blindly, unintentionally, accidentally
and really in spite of ourselves, we are already a world
power in all the trivial ways—in very human ways.
Common sense is fundamentally immoral, for
the natural morals of mankind are as irrational as the magic rites
that they evolved since the immemorial dimness of time.
Characters and authority figures pop into the story
unannounced and unexplained.
Acts of charity usually have about them
a whiff of sanctity.
