eating prunes and watching guiding light
February 24th, 2009I have a story coming out in a new magazine called GIGANTIC. They put up one-sentence prose previews.
For the Diane Williams workshop we typed up our favorite sentences from books and stories…here’s what I’ve got so far:
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concern’d in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;(and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:— Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.
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“Chuck, what is that up in that tree?” Marie said.
Chuck walked to the window. “A man,” he answered.
“A man? What’s he doing up there?”
“Don’t know.”
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Moldenke would remain.
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He made his fortune by by and by by by and by he made his fortune by and by by and by he made his fortune.
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She told her daughter as she might a lover such things her lover said were best kept secret from a girl.
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KEY:
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen Laurence Sterne
“Chuck, What is That?” Laurence C. Peacock NOON 2008
Motorman David Ohle
A Novel of Thank You Gertrude Stein
Nightwork “Teachers” Christine Schutt
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
two men named la(U)rence