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Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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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.”

I think we can all see the inherent problem here although the discrepancy seems to elude the facility command staff.

Source: Brian Hotchkiss, one of several contributors to “Games People Play: Inside the North Carolina Correctional System,” a “collage” piece in the Fall 2016 issue of J Journal: New Writing on Justice.

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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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.”

To the America of the 1960s, Mr. Glenn was a clean-cut, good-natured, well-grounded Midwesterner, raised in Presbyterian rectitude, nurtured in patriotism and tested in war, who stepped forward to risk the unknown and succeeded spectacularly, lifting his country’s morale and restoring its self-confidence.

Source: John Noble Wilford, “John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95” (The New York Times)

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
Disabled

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.”

“My mom is an elderly, disabled Jew, with Mexican children, black grandchildren, Chinese grandchildren, gay grandchildren, but this was never about an election,” I will tell him.

Source: Sara Marchant, “Was It Foolish to Think So?” (WritersResist.com)