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Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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ManTypingAnother 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.”

No one ever says, “Hey, if you’re a full-time accountant having kids will prevent you from being a full-time accountant.”

Source: Tobias Bucknell, interviewed by Guy Gonzalez for the new “Writer Dad” series on the VQR blog.

(I’ll stick to the “without commentary” precept for the moment, but may have more to say about this series and the whole question of “balancing” writing with other commitments–family and beyond–another time. For now, I’m just grateful for the sage comments Bucknell offers in this interview. They’re oh-so-refreshing.)

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.”

“As Proust knew, all love depends not just on current infatuation but on retrospective jealousy; lacking a classy old lover, a Marquis de Norpois, to be jealous of, I was jealous of the men in Montreal health-food stories who had sold her millet and lecithin granules.”

Source: Adam Gopnik, “Bread and Women,” in The New Yorker (subscription required)

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Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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Michelle Nijhuis

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.”

“Finally, like pavement weakened by too many cycles of heat and frost, our resistance buckled and cracked.”

Source: Michelle Nijhuis, “The Ghost Commune”, in Aeon magazine.

(There are so many more excellent sentences where this one comes from. Go read them all!)

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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BetweenFriends
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 Lilah remarked that in order to have progress, there have to be victims, David Dagan agreed with her and added that history is by no means a garden party.

Source: “Father,” by Amos Oz, in Oz’s collection Between Friends, trans. Sondra Silverston

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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AlecBaldwinPhilipRothAnother 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 men worked fifty, sixty, even seventy or more hours a week; the women worked all the time, with little assistance from labor-saving devices, washing laundry, ironing shirts, mending socks, turning collars, sewing on buttons, mothproofing woolens, polishing furniture, sweeping and washing floors, washing windows, cleaning sinks, tubs, toilets, and stoves, vacuuming rugs, nursing the sick, shopping for food, cooking meals, feeding relatives, tidying closets and drawers, overseeing paint jobs and household repairs, arranging for religious observances, paying bills and keeping the family’s books while simultaneously attending to their children’s health, clothing, cleanliness, schooling, nutrition, conduct, birthdays, discipline, and morale.

Source: Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, a copy of which I returned to this week after hearing Alec Baldwin read the opening pages–including the sentence above–at a Roth tribute on Tuesday afternoon.