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The lexicon of learning: ABCD

I’m doing an Instagram series of colouring pages from Renee Chin’s The ABC Coloring Book. I worked on these for over two years, so it was especially satisfying to get to the end of the alphabet. Each post is around a theme or concept – a meditation on details.

  • “A” is for “ambivalence” and “alacrity”
  • “B” is for Borodin (Alexander Borodin, a 19th Century Russian composer)
  • “C” is for “cartography”
  • “D” is for “dessert” and “desert” and “deserve”
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The Fig List II (sans postscript)

We’re back with another edition! This week, I recommend two ways to seize power, leading the revolution against tedium and underwhelming plot lines. But only if you are 13-18 (for the first item) or 4-10 (for the second item). For those individuals unfortunate enough to be 11 or 12, all I can offer as consolation is that time will trample these barren years underfoot and you’ll eventually be old enough for one of these undertakings.

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