Who are the writers, for you, that stretch the bounds of what language can do on the level of the sentence, the phrase? For me, it’s Elizabeth Hardwick and Janet Malcolm, hands down, but I’m curious to hear others’ picks.
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Nabokov .. a favorite - “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
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This one is stolen from Henri Poincaré: "La vie n'est q'un court épisode entre deux éternités de mort, et dans cette épisode meme, la vie consciente n'a duré et ne durera q'un moment. La pensée n'est q'un éclair au milieu d'une longue nuit."
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