The Subtle Beauty of Parallelism

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Stunning Sentences

The Subtle Beauty of Parallelism

"A Place in the Country," by Shirley Hazzard, from Collected Stories

Calamity has a generalizing effect, and as yet she could foresee her suffering only in a monumental way and not in its inexorable, annihilating detail.

“A Place in the Country,” by Shirley Hazzard, fr…

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