TIME OUT FOR RED

April 2, 2012
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A SENTENCE BY KINGSLEY AMIS

March 31, 2012

His face was heavy, as if little bags of sand had been painlessly sewn into various parts of it, dragging the features away from the bones, if he still had bones in his face. Boy knew from hangovers.

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A SENTENCE BY PLUM WODEHOUSE

March 24, 2012

George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. That George, ladies and gentlemen, is clearly one very fine swimmer in a story written 100 (+ or – 2) years ago.

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NOT HAWING

March 22, 2012
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a hem ahem ant hem anthem

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A SENTENCE BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

March 17, 2012

Sam was in the highest possible feather, and expressed his exultation by all sorts of supernatural howls and ejaculations, by divers odd motions and contortions of his whole system. Now there’s a sentence to cause one to reel backward for a moment and take inventory.

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NOW AND THEN

March 11, 2012
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March, 2012 November, 2011

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A SENTENCE BY STEVE SHILSTONE

March 10, 2012

I hate horses is true. First sentence of JC, a future publication from Livingston Press.

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JC

March 4, 2012

The loon’s saner self has signed a contract with Livingston Press to produce JC, the fictional memoir of a ten year old boy describing an eventful year in his life on a Northern California hippie commune/vineyard in the late 1970s.

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A SENTENCE BY ORHAN PAMUK

March 3, 2012

I am nothing but a corpse, a body at the bottom of a well. The opening sentence of My Name is Red aligns pretty well with William Holden’s voiceover at the opening of Sunset Boulevard.

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NOT AN ORANGE

February 27, 2012
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but it wishes it was

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