THE benefit and beauty of writing things down can often be found in the delay. For regardless of whether a reader likes it or not, or believes it makes sense or not, everything you see written here on these pages, as well as the order in which it has been arranged, has been carefully considered by the person whose fingers hit the keyboard. In the process, the person will have had to make certain choices, edit whatever they have written, and will have bought time to think, question, and get it absolutely right – to their own satisfaction, chiefly – before hitting send.
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