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This may be the best sentence I have ever read:
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to speed the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
--Zadie Smith, White Teeth
That comma just kills me.
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to speed the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
--Zadie Smith, White Teeth
That comma just kills me.
