The best writing is defined not by what it includes but by what it omits. Ma in writing is the paragraph break that lets an idea breathe. The short sentence after a long one. The chapter that ends before it has said everything, leaving the reader to complete the thought. Hemingway called it the iceberg theory. The Japanese call it ma.

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