How Writing Is Like Fencing, With Writer Max Gladstone - Part 1
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Is Everything a Barrel of Apples?
In another hundred years, consumer names will be only vaguely memorable. People will be picturing those barrels of apples again as a cot of adorable ext when it's another example of things changing meaning over time. Everything was clean, white surfaces with wtha natural stone floor and huge full wa windows, and you lmost couldn't see any clutter anywhere. And we understand how to interpret that in terms of aesthetic and accorporate aesthetic, and also in terms of affluence. But i could easily see, in a hundred years, someone looking at that and thinking, oh, it's so empty and barren. This must be intending to communicate an impoverished, right person? Right? If everything
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