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A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower”

—from Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

This stunning line is a pitch-perfect criminal profile.

 

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Lynn Crawford books include Solow, Blow, Fortification Resort, Simply Separate People, and Simply Separate People, Two, and Shankus & Kitto : A Saga. Her writing appears in Art in America, Hyperallergic, McSweeney’s, and in various anthologies. She lives with her family north of Detroit.

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