Author: D. A. Hosek
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Beautiful Sentences: Raymond Carver
In addition to being in love, we like each other and enjoy one another’s company. She’s easy to be with. Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.”
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Beautiful Sentences: Christian Wiman
Intellectuals and artists concerned with faith tend to underestimate the radical, inviolable innocence it requires. We read and read, write long, elaborate essays and letters, engage in endlessly inflected philosophical debates. We talk of poetry as prayer, artistic discipline as a species of religious devotion, doubt as the purest form of faith. These ideas are…
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Dewey Decimal Project: 478.2 SHA Essential Latin: The language and life of ancient Rome
It’s been a long time since I studied Latin, but I figured that it’s been long enough that a refresher will be welcome, but short enough that the refresher won’t be redundant. Sharpley incorporates a bit of cultural background alongside the language lessons which provides a nice supplement. This is generally connected to the Latin readings…
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Beautiful Sentences: Nathan Englander
His mother sometimes looked our way as she came and went from the house. She didn’t reveal anything that we were mature enough to read—only kept on, often with a palm pressed to the small of her back. Nathan Englander, “How We Avenged the Blums.”
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Beautiful Sentences: Christian Wiman
Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may find new forms. Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss.
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Beautiful Sentences: Derek Robinson
In mid-March the sky over France was all exuberance. Ragged flotillas of cloud sailed before a brisk west wind. Sunlight sought out the gaps and flickered over the new-green fields far below, The sky was a place of awakening, of vigour, as full of life as the million seeds in the earth. Woolley hacked a…
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Beautiful Sentences: Richard Dooling
His fourth day in Africa was spent deep in the interior of a remote, unmapped equatorial latrine exploring the dark incontinent. Richard Dooling, White Man‘s Grave.
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Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
And yet only fanatics—in religion as well as politics—can find a meaning in someone else’s death. That’s what distinguishes them from mystics, or most of us, whose only concern is our own death. Elie Wiesel, The Judges.
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Beautiful Sentences: Charles Willeford
Policemen undoubtedly had some kind of inborn perverted streak that normal men like himself didn’t have. Charles Willeford, Miami Blues.