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.”
You don’t get a pat on the back for ratcheting down from rabid after exploiting that very radicalism to your advantage.
Source: Charles M. Blow, “No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along” (The New York Times)
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.”
“This story is the Chernobyl of European anti-Semitism: pogroms, persecutions, inquisitions, massacres, Holocaust.”
Source: Amos Oz, quoted in Gal Beckerman’s “Amos Oz on His Novel ‘Judas,’ Which Challenges Views of a Traitor” (The New York Times).
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.”
(“Remember, my name is Nahum Grzywacz,” enjoins one of the authors at the end of his testament, emphasizing this final line.)
Source: Jessica Lang’s “Measure for Measure: Narrative and Numbers in Holocaust Textual Memorials,” a chapter in Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction (edited by Victoria Aarons); the sentence ends with a footnote citing material from the Ringelblum Archive as described in Samuel Kassow’s Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto.
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.”
“Would you like some slices of cheese and olives?” is not an offer you are likely to get from Axl Rose.
Source: David Remnick’s Leonard Cohen profile, The New Yorker
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.”
Nothing—even bad memoranda and sexual harassment webinars—is entirely wasted.
Source: Melissa Yancy’s “The Upside of Failure”, in Glimmer Train‘s Bulletin (via Jane Friedman)