‘Certainly they,’ which are ‘these things’, which are the rhythms of poetry and prose, ‘are not worked out step by step with conscious artifice; only the final polishing, the removal of lapses, is a conscious process.’
Here Marjorie, in Maytime, in sunshine outdoors, is both correct and entirely off. Where she is inward with how writing happens becomes m…
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