Just another writer
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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.
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Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
I’m past all desires; too many dead people dwell within me. Elie Wiesel, The Judges.
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Dewey Decimal Project: 447.09 GEN Merde Encore!
The 440s bring me to French. I’m still not up to actually learning a language and this book is thin and looks promising. It turns out that it’s mildly more interesting than reading a dictionary. I kind of hoped that literal translations of some of the expressions would have been provided, but I guess more functionality…
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Beautiful Sentences: William Faulkner
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind—and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality…