Whenever I can, I refrain from using the same word twice in a given paragraph. Thus, whenever each time I put pen to paper, I spend a great deal of time looking for ways to avoid such redundancy. Indeed, on occasions when my thesaurus fails to supply the means of avoiding redundancy dodging duplication, I resort to the employment of excessively formal words locutions, theft of foreign words palabras, and, when especially desperate, the coining of new words senseburps*.
I feel much the same way about the frameworks upon which I hang these elements. Thus, each time I fashion phrases into paragraphs, I look for fresh patterns to apply. Such attempts, alas, frequently fall afoul of my fondness for certain combinations, such as sequences in which the second sentence starts with ‘thus’ and the third contains ‘alas’.
So … to quote the immortal words of Frasier Crane … ‘What’s a boy to do?’
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