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Guest Post, by Matthew Kirkpatrick: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.
— William Gaddis, the last line of The Recognitions
After finishing a 1000-page book that you wish would keep on going, that you wish you had the time to immediately read again, this is the kind of line you hope for—sad, self-deprecatingly funny and pompous at the same time, beautiful.

Matthew Kirkpatrick’s fiction has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Copper Nickel, Hobart, Action, Yes!, and elsewhere.

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