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A review by bill369
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
I didn't finish this book quite frankly because I found it boring.
Snaps I did like:
I went chasing eclipses: those moments of reading when the light changes, some darker lustre takes over, things (words) seem suddenly obscure, even in the simplest sentence, and you find you have to look twice, more than twice.
Because the child is like a worm that feeds on the body of its mother but also resembles a corpse in the grave, that breeds then kills worms when the body is spent.
"Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor Monuments." – SIR THOMAS BROWNE
It is exactly what I want from a sentence, this combination of oblique self-involvement and utter commitment to the things themselves. For words are also things and things are apt to burst with force and loud report.
Snaps I did like:
I went chasing eclipses: those moments of reading when the light changes, some darker lustre takes over, things (words) seem suddenly obscure, even in the simplest sentence, and you find you have to look twice, more than twice.
Because the child is like a worm that feeds on the body of its mother but also resembles a corpse in the grave, that breeds then kills worms when the body is spent.
"Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor Monuments." – SIR THOMAS BROWNE
It is exactly what I want from a sentence, this combination of oblique self-involvement and utter commitment to the things themselves. For words are also things and things are apt to burst with force and loud report.