Totally stealing this idea from, well, all over the internet. (Prompted by an exchange with EthologyNerd.)
Texts From Dog was hilarious. How about you think up your favourite author(s) and make up some text interchanges with them? Maybe also texts with a favourite movie character.
I’ll start. Texts from Margaret Atwood. Continue reading
The American Scholar recently published a list of its editors’ picks for the “Ten Best Sentences.” Fitzgerald took the first slot, with this sentence from The Great Gatsby: “Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” Continue reading