#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.”
And I hate to kvetch, but why is the book’s Yiddish riddled with errors?
Source: Marjorie Ingall, “Not the Same Old Stories” (The New York Times Book Review)
Homer Hoose came home that evening to the golden cliche: the un-noble dog who was a personal friend of his; the perfect house where just to live was a happy riot; the loving and unpredictable wife; and the five children–the perfect number (four more would have been too many, four less would have been too few.”
R.A. Lafferty, The Hole on the Corner