The Replies Book

Recovering salt cellars and the targets of silk.

Dwindling darkness and recovering daylight delivered a message of empathy and leaderlike strength.

Shockingly bright pink strata delighted the sky and those looking at it in awe.

Deliveries were being made of milk , honey and oysters – someone thought this was everything you could possibly need.

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Distribute cookies at a suitable wedding, then book a flight.

The adventure that started a movement, which caused singing and neat and succinct legal briefs.

When the sun rises one fifth and a bottle of smooth quince juice is offered as a gift, then and only then open the envelope.

Talking of briefs, what caused the brief to be replaced by the boxer and the chat and greeting to be replaced by a grunt, we do not know.

Magical mysteries fuel the cascade of logic once again.

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Yes, you are right, it can be better – made better, done better.

Improvement is a great forward-moving concept.

Better burgers, better carpets, better mail delivery, better chocolate, better insurance, better medicine.

Today’s Improvement Bulletin will include more than yesterday’s and tomorrow’s will also increase.

It’s a thing that’s more than a daydream, better than burnt toast and easier to park than an aircraft carrier.

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Setting type.

Cold or hot.

Monotype came later.

A bottle, some Bodoni and a border.

We all want Baskerville now.

Really, Comic Sans is super.

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Nothing happened.

No leaf stirred.

Nothing cracked, crinkled or crumbled.

Everything, on the other hand, became fresh, moist and oh so alive.

The speech I made was well received. Reproduced in print, on radio and cast on many a pod.

Well judged by the world.

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