51.   And I even wrote you with a pen and paper!

52.   And it is written with the kind of unflappable reasonableness that makes everything around Tepper seem that much crazier.

53.   And he writes with an uncanny grace.

54.   And occasionally she wrote with a forlorn hopelessness.

55.   And so is a subversive manuscript that Gabrielle has written with Sade, a book that tells the cruelly demented history of the Spanish Inquisition in the Americas.

56.   And the whole is written with that imaged, magnesium prose one associates with Borges.

57.   And yet this book is written with great, backhanded affection for the lost world in which she grew up, with all its obvious peculiarities.

58.   Another Beijing artist, Song Dong, writes with plain water on a flat stone.

59.   Annie Dillard writes with the fury of someone obsessed with an idea.

60.   Apple writes with the passion and intensity of a veteran.