51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature

[David Casseres]

I don't think much of that collection.  Too many easy shots.  How about:

https://theamericanscholar.org/ten-best-sentences/#.VMnKRl7F8ew
http://sobadsogood.com/2013/06/30/100-of-the-greatest-opening-sentences-in-the-history-of-literature/
http://io9.com/great-opening-sentences-from-science-fiction-novels-1657496604
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/12/best_books_of_2013_great_sentences_from_great_books.html

...but none of those lists has enough TRP. I used to have a tidy little
collection of Our Man's long and winding sentence-organisms, cadence after
cadence like Alph the sacred river running down to the timeless sea.  You
all know the kind, right? My collection got lost in a computer catastrophe
and right now my books are all packed away while we remodel the house.  But
let's have a thread of great Pynchon sentences, what do ya say?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 52. "A screaming comes across the sky." --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's
> Rainbow (1973)
>
> http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferschaffer/i-am-i-am-i-am
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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