"All that stirring of old instincts which at stated period drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill- all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimite."
from Jack London's "The Call of the Wild..
"A vacuum cleaner that works well is more important to me than the Atom bomb, and it makes not the slighest difference to anyone I know the earth revolves around the sun instead of vice versa, or the moon around the earth, although the measured of ebb and flow of the tides may be of some interest to mariners and clam diggers, but who cares about them."
I magine you folks would tear that up until you found out it was from Joesph Heller's "Something Happened"
"Often in the night they awaken to smoke a cigarette and talk softly together for a awhile, and then go to sleep again rather like restless birds, which sing a lttle in the dark, dreaming that it is already day."
One of the sweetest sentences,I ever read.. Hand picked from John
Steinbeck"s , The Log from the Sea of Cortez"
The other two quotes, opened a book.. read a sentence..All "dark and stormy night" type sentences, easy to read in one sentence bu cumbersome strung together.. The kind literary snobs ho ho in new writers but revere in the classics.
Check out Twain, Abbey, Miller, B. Craven.. etc..
Enough for now.. Coug |
