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#SundaySentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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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.”

We repeat the story generation after generation and cling like drowning people to the hope that the same God who led our forefathers out of Egypt will also rescue us from here, bimheyre-beyemeynu, speedily in our days, amen!

Source: Yenta Mash, “A Seder in the Taiga.” In On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash (trans. Ellen Cassedy)

#SundaySentence

by Erika Dreifus on
Disabled

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.”

“He’d make a lovely corpse.”

Source: Mrs. Gamp, a character in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit, as quoted by Ron Charles in his weekly Washington Post newsletter.

#SundaySentence

by Erika Dreifus on
Disabled

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.”

At thirty-three Justin Condon was a salesman of women’s undergarments, regularly traversing five counties with his samples and his order book in a Ford Fiesta.

Source: William Trevor, “Music” (The Collected Stories)