Flaubert's Errand #1
5 exquisitely crafted sentences of prose I encountered in my recent reading.
“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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