Sunday, September 7, 2014

Sunday Sentence: Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan


Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.


The sun was like a huge fifty-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match and said, “Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper,” and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan


1 comment:

  1. Also my favorite line from that book. An entire story hidden within a simple simile. He was the best at that.

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