You already possess some important assets. You know how to talk. How to read. And, presumably, how to listen. You’ve grown up in language. You have the evidence of your senses. The upwelling of your emotions. The persistent flow of thoughts through your mind. The habit of talking to yourself or staging conversations in your head. Imagination and memory. With luck, you were read aloud to as a child. So you know how sentences sound when read aloud And how stories are shaped and a great deal about rhythm, Almost as much as you did when you were ten years old. You may even have the capacity of
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