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THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime

nature
The short essay in General Semantics Bulletin that proposed removing every form of "to be" from English. Bourland later collected the arguments and the objections into two anthologies.

The moment a philosophical axiom became an operable rule you can apply to a paragraph this afternoon.
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyA single act of subtraction, precisely aimed.
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e-prime · 1965
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