Vibrating Reed

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    ... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.
    Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
    By any emollient.
    —Henry Reed (1914–1986)