Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.
NOTE: This week, while reading the “Shakespeare” chapter in David Denby’s Great Books, I couldn’t choose between sentences, so I am giving you a double-dose this week. You’re welcome.
My mother died the way she did everything, decisively and in great haste.
The play is about fierce, pre-Christian aristocrats, not American Jewish mothers. But Ida Denby was the Lear of my life.
Great Books by David Denby
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