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Sentences That 'Evoke an Entire Universe'

Posted Jun 22, 08 7:32 PM CDT in Glossies,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Celebrating 75 years of fiction, Esquire offers some samples from "writers who could evoke an entire universe with a single sentence." A smattering:

  • "Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well," Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, August, 1936.

  • "Any mention of pirates of the fair sex runs the immediate risk of awakening painful memories of the neighborhood production of some faded musical comedy, with its chorus line of obvious housewives posing as pirates and hoofing it on a briny deep of unmistakable cardboard," Jorge Luis Borges, The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate, August, 1972.
  • "The first time she drowned in the cold and glassy waters of Lake Turcot, Fleur Pillager was only a girl," Louise Erdrich, Fleur, August, 1986.
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"The first time she drowned in the cold and glassy waters of Lake Turcot, Fleur Pillager was only a girl," Louise Erdrich wrote.   (AP Photo)
"Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well," Ernest Hemingway wrote.   (Magnum Photos)
"Any mention of pirates of the fair sex runs the immediate risk of awakening painful memories of the neighborhood production of some faded musical comedy," Jose Luis Borges wrote.   (Magnum Photos)
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