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“Making something to hold out of a very hard material that feels so soft is a slow and rather good tactile pun.”

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source: The Hare with Amber Eyes (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), [prologue] 13.

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“I have made many, many thousands of pots. I am very bad at names, I mumble and fudge, but I am good on pots. I can remember the weight and the balance of a pot, and how its surface works with its volume. I can read how an edge creates tension or loses it. I can feel if it has been made at speed or with diligence. If it has warmth.”

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source: The Hare with Amber Eyes (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), [prologue] 16.

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