I burn books for a living, but I do not know why books are not aloud.
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As far as I can think, there are three criteria for me to classify a book as one of my favorites. I am able to finish the entire thing in three days (indicating I had a desire to read it during my …
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21. Utilize ‘The Burning Method.’ Whenever a fear or worry or complaint comes to mind, close your eyes and imagine writing down the thought on a piece of paper. Then proceed to light the paper and fire and watch it disintegrate. Even better, actually write it down and burn it. You won’t have any problem ridding your mind of the thought after doing this.
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Northern Masked Weaver Rosamond Purcell: Photographer of Decay Once attracted to subjects that critics considered grotesque, photographer-author Rosamond Purcell turned her attention to the old, the burnt, and the destroyed. In these objects, she finds beauty and truth. Whether it is a deceased animal, a decayed book, or an eerie specimen from a medical museum, many don’t find beauty in death or decay. We tend to be afraid of things we don’t understand. Thankfully there are a number of…
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I’m burning bad news. . My mom gave me a box (a huge box) of old newspapers that she found in her parents house after they passed away. This box sat in my garage for a year. Then I moved it to my studio and started to sift through it. It was heavy. I found a few crossword puzzles that my grandparents completed a while back and I pulled them to the side. But I couldn’t figure out what to do with the box until this morning: burn it. . I saved the few papers that I could find with positive…
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i once burned a manuscript because it was too beautiful to exist. i wrote something late at night, fevered, shaking.
a passage so perfect, and so cruelly right, that I knew it was not truly mine. it did not feel written, it felt delivered. and i was afraid.
afraid that i had glimpsed something not meant for me to see.
afraid that if i let it live, it would unmake me. so I burned the pages.
the smoke smelled of ink, and of regret.
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