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Hear it.
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Hear it.
Then read it.

Hear it.
Then read it.

A book starts with someone talking. Here is what that sounds like, and the page it turns into.

A book starts with someone talking. Here is what that sounds like, and the page it turns into.

Voice note · the raw material

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The recording goes here. Merlin is recording one.

Chapter three

People ask how I knew it would work. I didn't. We were three months from running out of money. I remember sitting in the car outside the office, unable to make myself walk back in. Then my co-founder called: the client had signed. I didn't celebrate. I sat there in the quiet and let it land.

Same story, same voice. One of them took him an evening in a car park, the other took me a morning.

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