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Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

The rain beat furiously against the darkened windows, as if it were demanding that we listen with rapt attention to some urgent message it had to deliver.

Source: The Amos Oz Reader, selected and edited by Nitza Ben-Dov (this sentence from a translation by Nicholas de Lange). Truly, there are so many gorgeous sentences in this book.

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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ER
Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

When I was twelve years old and just getting over my unnatural fear of dogs, girls, and thunderstorms, I stumbled on my father’s secret collection of Queen Elizabeth memorabilia.

Source: Gary Krist, “Rara Avis,” in Redux.

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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LF
Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

“Behind every great Russian child, there is a Russian grandmother who acts as chef de cuisine, bodyguard, personal shopper, and PR agent.”

Source: Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure, which has so many excellent sentences that it is nearly impossible to choose just one. And I’m only halfway through!