Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

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Letter to Rebecca #24-11

Effective responses, forgotten authors, what words mean, and persiflage

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Terry Freedman
May 22, 2024
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In which Terry talks about a good response to criticism, an important difference between the American meaning of a word and the British one, and an author who was even more prolific than he is.

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This is the latest letter in my regular, informal correspondence with Substacker and fellow Brit Rebecca Holden, in which we…

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