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An air altogether of occupying a time not his own – might he be more at ease in an Edwardian dining room, say, or on a pitching clipper’s deck? Very likely.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Each time, I’ve marveled at the logic and ease and length (181 words) of the sentence, the hard clausal steps that slowly mount (or is it descend?) to a grammatically wrong-footing conclusion—the dash’s flat fall where we might have expected a “then…” or “so…” I have wondered about the oddity of Woolf’s metaphors—the sentence is mostly made of meta
... See moreLiterary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
The people who did know the details of what had happened, Josh Su, the friends she had at the time, one by one she found a way not to know them anymore.
Ann Patchett • State of Wonder: A Novel
Daughters can’t bear to think of their mothers as weak or vulnerable.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
precocious.
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
supplication.