<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # I built a notation that makes the tearing-out... > I built a notation that makes the tearing-out happen first, at the desk, under the author's control, while the thought is still soft enough to be shaped by it. Two braces. Twenty-six years. Three and a half thousand propositions that were required to prove they could live alone before they were allowed to live at all. {{The only writing that lasts a thousand years is writing that was built, from the first sentence, to be carried away.}} **Source:** [[projects/Dual-Render Authorship and the Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar|Dual-Render Authorship: The Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar]], [[working/control/pre-dual-render-integration-2026-08-31/projects/Dual-Render Authorship and the Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar|Dual-Render Authorship: The Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “I built a notation that makes the tearing-out happen first, at the desk, under the author's control, while the thought is still soft enough to be shaped by it. Two braces. Twenty-six years. Three and a half thousand propositions that were required to prove they could live alone before they were allowed to live at all. The only writing that lasts a thousand years is writing that was built, from the first sentence, to be carried away.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-built-notation-makes-sentence-carried-away ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->