Thinking

Apt use of the kiln as a metaphor to describe the thought process of the man who first created porcelain in...

Images

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

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

Negligible

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

‘His assets are negligible, a word...

Glaze

What a magnificent description of the cracked coastline of a broken plate!

‘… breaks the plate into shards. The glaze...

Surfaces

You can see this magnificent creature's breathing sheen.

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

Source:...

Whiteness

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

‘It is becoming his obsession,...

Growan

A southern English local word for granite, also called ‘moorstone’.

Source: Edmund de Waal, The White Road, p. 251

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