{"id":165319,"date":"2023-09-08T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=165319"},"modified":"2023-09-08T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:16:03","slug":"sentences-we-loved-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/08\/sentences-we-loved-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentences We Loved This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_165322\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-summer-reading-cove-4721218416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-summer-reading-cove-4721218416.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-summer-reading-cove-4721218416-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-summer-reading-cove-4721218416-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonner Springs City Library, Bonner Springs, Kentucky, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Summer_Reading_Cove_(4721218416).jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>,<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A passage about LA (\u201cellay\u201d) from Henry Hoke\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780374609870\"><i>Open Throat<\/i><\/a>, a novel narrated by a mountain lion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the bright world below the park at night is a blur to me when I try to look out over it<\/p>\n<p>but if I get close enough to a creature\u2019s eye I can see what it sees and in the owl\u2019s eye I see ellay clearly<\/p>\n<p>more lights than I could ever count stretch out into the darkness and don\u2019t stop stretching<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m scared of how far they go<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Spencer Quong, business manager<\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the fifties travel book <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780720618945\"><i>The Crying of the Wind: Ireland<\/i><\/a>, by Ithell Colquhoun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Slender-legged colts stepped down the opposite bank to drink; they pawed the water nervously, seeming to want it muddy before tasting it. Perhaps they were not thoroughbreds, but they had a wild grace now seldom seen in English fields. None the less, I was thankful that the wide expanse of the current divided me from them, for I regard any horse as a psychotic with homicidal tendencies and prefer to avoid close quarters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Jane Breakell, development director<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From the rollicklingly pleasurable <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781590172322\"><i>Dud Avocado <\/i><\/a>by Elaine Dundy, which genuinely had me laughing out loud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking back, I don\u2019t know anyone he\u2019d actually been wrong about\u2014except of course me, but then as we know I am totally incomprehensible to everyone including myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Sophie Haigney, web editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The fourth sentence of Jack Skelley\u2019s stoned-but-hyperactive <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781635901856\"><i>The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway, I\u2019m hearing this music in my head as I\u2019m walking down the Mallway, and I see this paraplegic in a wheelchair, and he\u2019s glaring at me with all the hatred he has, and the wheelchair motor is making this horrible screeching grinding sound, like some dentist drill piercing my skull, and I\u2019m walking past this table set up by these right-to-lifers with all these pictures of unborn babies staring out at you utterly forlorn, and I\u2019m just absorbing all this kind of stuff, and I\u2019m thinking this is America and it doesn\u2019t really feel too safe or good or anything anymore, because these Mall walls could come crashing down any minute in the slightest California earthquake\u2014not to mention the inevitable nuclear holocaust, which I dreamed about again last night\u2014the blast so loud it woke me up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Olivia Kan-Sperling, assistant editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Two sentences from Robert Gl\u00fcck\u2019s <i>Jack the Modernist<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My childhood needed many secrets and secret places to lend depth to my loneliness but at heart I was totally prosaic about my suffering and its attendant strategies of goodness and solitude; it was like standing in line at the bank for x number of years.<\/p>\n<p>My misfortune was that I lacked Jack\u2019s love; Jack\u2019s cock was the toothpick that stabilized my club sandwich of being and nothingness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Amanda Gersten, associate editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781937512033\"><i>Crapalachia<\/i><\/a> by Scott McClanahan, a coming-of-age memoir and a portrait of rural West Virginia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The people worked in restaurants so that tourists could laugh at their accents. They were paying for something that was given for free. The people from here didn\u2019t have to run a river to prove that it existed. They didn\u2019t have to climb a mountain just to climb it. It was enough that the river was a river and the mountain was a mountain and inside of them were mountains too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Anna Rahkonen, intern<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From Geoff Dyer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780307390301\"><i>Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi<\/i><\/a>, the type of book that heightens your sense that it is summer, and you&#8217;re living it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You came to Venice, you saw a ton of art, you went to parties, you drank up a storm, you talked bollocks for hours on end and went back to London with a cumulative hangover, liver damage, a notebook almost devoid of notes and the first tingle of a cold sore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Camille Jacobson, engagement editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From Gayl Jones\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780807029947\"><i>The Birdcatcher<\/i><\/a>, about a love triangle featuring a murderous artist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was silent, observing me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s almost nothing I wouldn\u2019t do for you; you know that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the \u201calmost.\u201d Does every woman hear the \u201calmost\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Izzy Ampil, intern<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781015617797\"><i>Note-Book of Anton Chekhov<\/i><\/a>, translated by S. 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