51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature

[Monte Davis]

"When the Hook of Night is well set, and when all the Children are at last
irretrievably detain’d within their Dreams, slowly into the Room begin to
walk the Black servants, the Indian poor, the Irish runaways, the Chinese
Sailors, the overflow’d from the mad Hospital, all unchosen
Philadelphia,—as if something outside, beyond the cold Wind, has driven
them to this extreme of seeking refuge." (M&D 759)

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:21 AM, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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