Just another writer
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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…
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Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
What if they tried to play tricks with your memory in order to attack the thing it protects—your soul? Elie Wiesel, The Judges.
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Beautiful Sentences: Maria Semple
This is why you must love life: one day you’re offering up your social security number to the Russia Mafia; two weeks later you’re using the word calve as a verb. Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
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Dewey Decimal Project: 439.1 WEX Just Say Nu : Yiddish For Every Occasion (When English Just Won’t Do)
As I continue through the 400s, I also strive to avoid having to learn another language. The 430s are German and Germanic languages and I decide on this book, hich looks like it might not be a real learn Yiddish book to check off this decade. It turns out that Wex has written something that’s a…