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veen  ·  4061 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the single greatest sentence ever written in the English language?

I'd say one of the sentances of Goodbye Blue Sky from Pink Floyd's The Wall. Sadly I had to link from Dailymotion, as the original version is blocked all over Youtube. The song is about the Blitz of the Second World War, when London was bombed for 57 consecutive nights.

    Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on. Goodbye, Blue Sky.

Especially these sentences capture the pain that a nation felt.