Sunday Sentence

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In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

But the newspaper wasn’t there: that rascal of a neighbor, her enemy, must have already taken it with him.

Source: Clarice Lispector’s “One Day Less” (trans. Katrina Dodson), in Harper’s.