Re:Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
by tptacek on Monday March 16, 2009 @10:24PM
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You can do this to any sentence fragment. "Eleanor Rigby was lonely [1], like many others." Fuckin' Beatles.
It sure does help to have the ideas to back up the style, though.
[1] (Here I should mention a habit of hers I had long noticed but never commented on, which habit was that she would walk through churches after weddings, employing her falcate digits to retrieve the spent grains of the matrimonial offering.)
It sure does help to have the ideas to back up the style, though.
[1] (Here I should mention a habit of hers I had long noticed but never commented on, which habit was that she would walk through churches after weddings, employing her falcate digits to retrieve the spent grains of the matrimonial offering.)