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Racer Joseph (wheatbeard)
Race Number 51
Date Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:22:44 +0000
Speed 91 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 97.1%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents uvarowite (2nd place)

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We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.
Pale Fire (book) by Vladimir Nabokov (see stats)

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