Alice Munro, “Runaway,” in Runaway (New York: Vintage, 2005).
Such a great sentence. Nine of its fourteen words form prepositional phrases, but the sentence moves as quickly as the truck, or the air. And notice that it’s air, not wind. The final seams is a bonus.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
One Alice Munro sentence
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
love it. so vivid. such economy. which story is it from?
ReplyDeleteIt’s from “Runaway.” (The details are below the sentence.)
ReplyDeleteI am blind.
ReplyDeleteHow did I not see that?!
ReplyDeleteThe scientific name is the Online Oversight in Processing Syndrome (OOPS). It happens to me often. “Oh, there it is.”
ReplyDeleteOr better: Oversight in Online Processing.
ReplyDelete:) or maybe I was mesmerised by That Sentence.
ReplyDelete