Just another writer
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Beautiful Sentences: Tommy Orange
Those hills bend time. Tommy Orange, There There.
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Beautiful Sentences: Emily Banks
We close our own dead’s eyes so we can’t seethis pupilless despair, the final begging prayersof a godless animal. Emily Banks, “Thaw.”
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Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa
And I smile to myself as I think that life, which includes these pages bearing the names of fabrics and various sums of money, blank spaces, ruled lines and letters, also includes the great navigators, the great saints, the poets of every age, none of whom appear in this book, a whole vast progeny excluded…
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Writerly resolutions, April Status
The novel feels like it’s going better, although the numbers reveal I wrote just 2,273 words, which is more than last month, but less than I would have liked. Short story statuses: nothing new put into submissions but I’m beginning to get some minor traction with the new stories and revising the long story.
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Beautiful Sentences: Joy Williams
Little children were too innocent to provide salvation. Indeed, little children were always leading their elders right into the teeth of death. Joy Williams, The Changeling.
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Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa
There is no work of art that could not have been more perfect. Read line by line, no poem, however great, has no single line that could not be improved upon, no episode that could not be more intense, and the whole is never so perfect that it could not be even more perfect. Fernando…
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Beautiful Sentences: Joy Williams
They had provided her with substitutions and she had lived safely in the brightness of false things. Joy Williams, The Changeling.
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Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa
We know that the book we will never write will be bad. Even worse will be the one we put off writing. At least the book that has been written exists. It may not be very good, but it exist, like the miserable little plant in the lone flowerpot belonging to my crippled neighbor. Fernando…
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Dewey Decimal Project: 487.4 CRO A Primer of Biblical Greek
As an undergraduate I studied a number of languages with varying degrees of success. Spanish, Latin, Hebrew and Ancient Greek. It was this last that that completely defeated me. After just one semester, I dropped out of the Greek class. From talking with others both back in the olden days and more recently, the difficulty of…