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A Jittery, Foreboding Sentence

A Jittery, Foreboding Sentence

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

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After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud.

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

man in black jacket sitting on brown wooden stand during daytime
the thickest dust

Capote’s sentence reminds …

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