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Nick Buchheit's avatar

I want books like these! Fantastic work.

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Thomas Wharton's avatar

So do I.

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Annie Hendrix's avatar

Wow this is so great!

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𝐂𝐁 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧's avatar

Lovely!

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Sharon Hom's avatar

I love these “imaginary” books that are brought to full magical lives by a hopeful generous imagination and gorgeous writing♥️

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Emily Charlotte Powell's avatar

Absolutely magical. I would now please like a library filled with these living books, thank you! Wonderfully descriptive and imaginative Thomas 📚

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Devon Nako's avatar

These vignettes are delightful and could each be expanded into novellas. I especially loved four. It's such a beautiful scene that captures the melancholy/mundaneity of everyday life with a tiny drop of magic when the book returns to the woman. Not sure if you've gotten to her piece yet, but @aliaparker also wrote about moths and moonlight.

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Thomas Wharton's avatar

Thanks so much! I saw Alia’s piece, yes. Synchronicity 😉

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Stephanie Loomis's avatar

Love love

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Joseph Young's avatar

These are lovely, Thomas. I'll pick 8 as my favorite, but all of them are great. I like the sound of these and the sound of the more technical words somehow especially, crisp and a little wintery. Very nice.

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Thomas Wharton's avatar

Thanks so much Joseph. Glad you enjoyed them. I’ve always been inspired by Italo Calvino, a master of merging lyricism with scientific terminology.

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Winston Pei's avatar

That was brilliant

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Thomas Wharton's avatar

Thanks Winston!

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judy's avatar

Love it 😍 Beautiful evocative writing

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