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Cleave: On the Art of Holding and Dividing

Makari | A reflection on how language divides to reveal what it holds.

Nov 19, 2025
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Language has a strange tenderness. It knows how to split without destroying, how to separate so that something more precise can be seen.

The word cleave is one of those quiet miracles—meaning both to …

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