Author: D. A. Hosek
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Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
Don’t forget that the Jews were not the only victims of my father and his accomplices: we, their children, are victims too. In our own way, we too have been uprooted and left on the scrap heap. For the children of the executioners too, midnight will always be sounding. Don’t forget that. Elie Wiesel, The…
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Dewey Decimal Project: 464.342 DIO Las Puertas Retorcidas
The 460s are Spanish and Portuguese. I was hoping to find something in an intermediate reader since I have at least a decent reading knowledge of Spanish. I thought Las Puertas Retoricidas would be that book, but it turns out it’s a somewhat absurdist story at the service of teaching little lessons of vocabulary and grammar.…
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Beautiful Sentences: Ernest Hemingway
“It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I’m not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t.” She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
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Dewey Decimal Project: 458.242 ADR Italian in 32 Lessons
As I worked my way through the 400s, the inevitable could no longer be postponed: I’m going to read a language textbook (for most of a year, it turns out), “learning” Italian. I picked Italian in 32 Lessons primarily because it was a slender volume and I figured I could work through 32 lessons in a…
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Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
Why does the Torah begin with the second letter, beth, rather than the first, aleph? Because the latter was already in exile. Elie Wiesel, The Judges.
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Beautiful Sentences: William Faulkner
My Mother is a fish. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying.