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May you be ever spared barked slogans. ‘Images pass, as brief as barked slogans.’

Source: Edmund de Waal, The White Road (London: Chatto...

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Haptic

Edmund de Waal speaks of haptic knowledge, ‘the ways in which it is possible to know something complex without having...

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Lightduress (Lichtzwang)

Another hybrid word coined by the poet Paul Celan – does it refer to a light amount of duress or the duress that...

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Gestures

Conveying a light and gentle touch. ‘I wanted it to be a gesture, as easy as a hand on a shoulder.’

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Whiteness

A vision of whiteness brought into relief through contrast with non-whiteness, rendering everything else mere shadow.

‘It is becoming his obsession,...

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Green on green

A lovely description and an idyllic image of an English county.

‘Herefordshire is green on green, lichen on old apple...

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A pilgrim’s path

Luiz and I have talked about taking some long walks or bike rides and even doing a stretch of the...

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Scrimshank

A playful, crunchy sounding word. Edmund de Waal uses this to suggest all over the place, at random: ‘bricks are...

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Surfaces

You can see this magnificent creature's breathing sheen.

‘His surfaces oscillate like the breathing flank of some thoroughbred animal.’

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Bees and trees

This captures what I feel when I see sage and valiant bees and the genius of trees.

‘The earth is...

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Negligible

Try it, say ‘negligible’ slowly and see what a crumbly, negligible word it is.

‘His assets are negligible, a word...

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Breathturn (Atemwende)

A word coined by the poet Paul Celan. Edmund de Waal mentions that ‘Celan cannot find words to fit together...

Images

Haptic

Lightduress (Lichtzwang)

Gestures

Whiteness

Green on green

A pilgrim’s path

Scrimshank

Surfaces

Bees and trees

Negligible

Breathturn (Atemwende)

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