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		<title>The pie of the day is chunky fudge.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our waiter included this offering in a list of dessert options.   A sentence of delight that still begged more questions.  Really?   &#8221;Chunky fudge?&#8221;  Who knew that was an option for pie?  It sounds more like ice cream.  A kid&#8217;s idea of a pie.  We asked for clarification.  I don&#8217;t remember the full list of ingredients, but it included raisins.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=47&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When she came to visit Mama she carried her own ashtray.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple, short character study, this sentence pops up in &#8220;Somehow Form a Family,&#8221; a Tony Earley story in a collection of the same name (2001).  It invites me to create an image and a whole backstory for someone who is really a passing character in the story.  It&#8217;s also just funny.  She&#8217;s probably named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=45&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;Entirely I give myself over to them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Again, part of a larger sentence that&#8217;s too long for a headline.  This time, from Machiavelli&#8217;s letter to Francesco Vettori, in English, then the Italian. On the coming of evening, I return to my house and enter my study; and at the door I take off the day’s clothing, covered with mud and dust, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=31&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little curled chrysanthemum of a dog was in heaven at her approach.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shirley Hazzard rarely writes an ordinary sentence.  This gem just pops up as a character walks toward a dining room.  What I like about it is that it depicts the dog quickly, freshly and convincingly, and I that I can envision the dog instantly &#8212; small, curly-haired, almost certainly white, elated and bouncing.  Joy manifest. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=33&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;Thanne longen folk to goon pilgrimages.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Middle English&#8211;loosely, &#8220;then folks long to go on pilgrimages&#8221;&#8211;and it&#8217;s the center of the beautiful welcome to  The Canterbury Tales.  Chaucer&#8217;s full 18-line opening sentence: Whan that Aprill, with his shours soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=26&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s like they dug up my grandma and she made the pie.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it a funny sentence on its own, or does it need context?  Pizza.  Brooklyn.  Slice.  (&#8220;Straight Out of Brooklyn, the $5 Slice,&#8221; New York Times, July 30, 2009.) I&#8217;m calling this a New York sentence for the humor, the diction and the ability to imagine the speaker instantly: he&#8217;s an Italian Brooklyn-ite named Frank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=21&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And I think he liked being president, as opposed to doing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So as a standalone sentence, it&#8217;s not actually so fine, especially since I expect the second half to parallel the first (&#8220;doing president&#8221; does not work).  Since it&#8217;s colloquial speech, I give it a pass.  More context from &#8220;Taking the Hill&#8221; in the New York Times (June 7, 2009): When I asked Baucus, who worked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=18&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He was a colicky baby.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This start to Joseph Blotner&#8217;s Faulkner: A Biography (1974) is simple, funny and revealing.  It succinctly frames Faulkner&#8217;s character: the unease and fussiness and pain and the need for attention.  Possibly even the grief.   And in reading Faulkner&#8217;s life story&#8211;the discomfort in his skin and his land, his attempts to write and rewrite, his chronic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=14&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In A Fine Sentence, I select one sentence each day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In A Fine Sentence, I select one sentence each day from my reading.  The sentence may be thoughtful, witty, beautiful, frustrating, terrifying, succinct, moving, or simply unbelievable.  And then I try to match its insight with commentary. My name is Jason.  I live in New York.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afinesentence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8706913&amp;post=9&amp;subd=afinesentence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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