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Flaubert's Errand #1

5 exquisitely crafted sentences of prose I encountered in my recent reading.

Iqbal
Jul 26, 2020
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“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.”

Huffpost:: Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls

"From the air California can look like an archipelago of prisons.”

The Economist:: California reelin'

“Bernini had discovered a way to make marble movies.”

The Guardian:: When stone came to life

“Technology is the means of controlling the world without experiencing it.”

The Economist 1843: What’s the worst that could happen?

“Bare feet and literacy are not incompatible.”

berfrois: Busy with the Past

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