A SENTENCE BY BUCK CROUSE

November 2, 2013

‘Moe, I don’t care how many of them damn degrees you got, they ain’t never learned you to hit the curve.’ Buck Crouse, Chicago White Sox catcher in 1927 to teammate Moe Berg.

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STUBBORN LEAVES HANGING ON

October 30, 2013
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A SENTENCE BY FLANNERY O’CONNOR

October 26, 2013

‘I followed her to say I ain’t beholden for none of her fast eye like she gave me back yonder.’ I’m particular partial to ‘fast eye’ in this here sentence. Thankee, Ms. O’Connor.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, URSULA

October 22, 2013

I studied your Dad’s books and loved your Mom’s books about Ishi.

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THE ADVENTURE BEGINS

October 21, 2013
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A SENTENCE BY J.G. BALLARD

October 19, 2013
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His unconscious was rapidly becoming a well-stoked pantheon of tutelary phobias and obsessions homing in to his already over-burdened psyche like lost telepaths. J.G. Ballard renders one of the highfalutin sentences in his quite strangely good The Drowned World.

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RAGGED RAIN SHAWL

October 9, 2013
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BANAL INTERVIEWS WITH CELEBRITY GHOSTS – JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

October 6, 2013

Loon: The 3 Question Interview today is with this old time author dressed in woodsman’s togs, Mr. James Fenimore Cooper. Mr. Cooper, I am told you wrote exciting books. Is this true? Cooper’s ghost: ‘Pears as how that just might be so. Loon: Are you speaking as yourself now or as your famous character, whatever […]

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A SENTENCE BY MOTHER EARTH

October 5, 2013
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A SENTENCE BY JAMES HERRIOT

September 28, 2013

“Move!” bawled the drill corporal. And so our trusty vet takes the plunge into WWII while taking many a trip down memory lane.

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