Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. It even likes to mingle with the dancers... Shadow... It waves with the grasses, curls up at the foot of trees... But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet Blaise Cendrars an eerie image, shifting between the beliefs of the present and the spirits of the past.
Christmas by Gilbert Keith Chesterton from "All things considered"
Эссе Г.Честертона, изложенное, как всегда, в сатирическом, парадоксальном ключе. I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book.” This is how Chesterton introduces his 1908 collection of essays called All Things Considered.
Academic Studies English - Writing Paragraphs & the Writing Process
This book deals with an even larger unit of communication called the paragraph. Single words and single sentences are acceptable in conversations, but if you want to write your ideas, you need to know how to put groups of sentences together into these larger units, called paragraphs. Readers expect written messages to follow certain rules of structure, and, as a result, the success of your communication depends on following these conventions.