‘The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self.’
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When someone talks and you go ‘Hmmm, mmmm’, you’re being phatic – displaying a sort of primal animal sympathy; saying, in effect, ‘Keep going, I’m still here’, even though mentally you may be a hundred miles away.
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The Joy of Nothing
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wouldn’t it be brilliant if we all wrote really rich, detailed letters to each other, which we kept as physical artefacts to pass on to future generations?
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The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self.’
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Cost: £14.50 for 50 sheets of 10” x 8”. The starburst in my chest felt like love.
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What are you doing? Send a sodding email. I haven’t got all night.
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The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self
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word ‘phatic’? It’s the word linguistics experts use to describe speech which establishes a mood of