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Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Metaphor in Non-Fiction Writing

I have a lot of trouble getting rid of those of the literal truth reality is like a tree where you have the trunk that splits into the various branches which then fork off again into twigs and leaves. You're never ever gonna manage to capture all that complexity but maybe the person who steps back and just says green is actually doing a way better job of capturing the tree than you are by painstakingly trying to trace these branches, he said.

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