Stunning Sentences

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But our brains are built to wrest familiar meaning from the confusions of the world, and watching the cranes at dusk I see them first turn into strings…
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In the lobby, they were sitting across from each other in two armchairs, these two small women, both beautiful in different ways, both wearing heavy…
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We enjoyed swimming, until the mystery of tides was explained in such a way that the ocean seemed nothing more than an enormous saltwater toilet…
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The neighborhood had put on its unsettling night-time face, with shadowy figures hugging the buildings, women motionless at the kerb and murky lighting…
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The boys at Columbia went to class and the boys in Harlem went to war, a reality not suspended for a friendly Saturday pickup game. The Dutch House, Ann…
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Standing there, Miles was pre-mortified, certain he would mess things up, and everyone would laugh because Miles was ten years old and was meant to mess…
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Counselor, Danny needs you, spoken by a small boy on a high hill, and the four words fell from his mouth and were scattered by the four winds, years…
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It was a loud dawn. Sid had never seen or heard anything quite like it, the sun breaking the horizon line with a sound like a dull knife ripping a…
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On a sheep-cropped knoll under a clump of elms we ate the strawberries and drank the wine – as Sebastian promised, they were delicious together – and we…
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Something a little different today. The other night, I brought this poem to my class because of the syntax. Beautifully, remarkably, the syntax creates…
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As he lay in recovery, the morphine drip only prolonged his obsession with the unbaled hay, since it allowed him to forget about his shoulder, which he…
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One of my subscribers took the Paul Harding sentence and ran it through the AI program, Stable Diffusion, which changes text into images. So is text now…
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