#SundaySentence

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Or, rather, how long could it remain so?

Source, Mark Helprin, Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel

(Breaking the rules here—I know I’m not supposed to comment—but you just have to trust me that this ostensibly basic sentence packs a real punch.)

#SundaySentence

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Other November ninths fill out the list, but Germans recognize a Schicksalstag, a fateful day, when they see one.

Source: Sigrid MacRae, “Two Germanys” (Harper’s)