Sarah L. Kaufman on Harnessing the Power of Verbs
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. How do we suggest the ineffable through actions and dynamic verbs? In the following exchange from The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner wields the power of suggestion with extraordinary


