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nowaypablo  ·  4070 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the single greatest sentence ever written in the English language?

Just pitching in with some ideas, I think Kurt Vonnegut has had some amazing lines; what with so it goes and the smell of mustard gas and roses. I suggest thinking out of the box of generally-accepted classics and "the greats."





user-inactivated  ·  4070 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I turned to hubski in large part for a) its knowledge of poetry and b) its ability to think beyond the classics.

However, I definitely consider Vonnegut a "great," just an unconventional one. So it goes in particular illustrates that the power of a sentence has everything to do with context and nothing to do with word count or vocabulary.