Imagine that you are an animal in the zoo. What type of animal are you? How do you feel about being caged? How do you feel about people that visit and watch you?

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Daily Writing Tip - Jul 29, 2026

From Sol Stein's "On Writing": What we mean by “dry” is that it does not enable us to see as we read, it does not move us, and, most important, it does not stimulate our intellect with insi…

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The Human Abstract

Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor, And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we.

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