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May 5, 2010 - Uncategorized

A Sentence About A Sentence I Love

“Judge, looking up finally, straight-faced and serious, said, ‘I shit you not,’ as if under oath, and they both went…

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May 5, 2010May 5, 2010 - Uncategorized

chance at a free copy of Shane Jones’ LIGHT BOXES

via Adam Robinson @ htmlgiant.com: To enter to win the original PG version of Light Boxes, together with the new…

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May 5, 2010May 5, 2010 - Uncategorized

Sentence abt a Sentence

“He was the kind of boy I used to close my eyes, reach into my underwear and build from scratch.”…

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May 5, 2010 - Uncategorized

A sentence about a sentence I love.

“It hung in the air exactly the way bricks don’t.”–Hitchhikker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams There are sentences I…

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May 5, 2010August 29, 2023 - Archives, Uncategorized

The fate of being a critic

These are thoughts inspired, in part, by Shya’s recent post about ambition, but mostly by a question Maureen asked me…

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May 5, 2010March 3, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen

  RHETORIC   The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…

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May 5, 2010March 3, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ken Sparling

“There was a wall.”   This is the first sentence of THE DISPOSSESED by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the…

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