Thursday, August 27, 2009

Paris

When he arrived at the restaurant, Adrianne ordered a ham sandwich.

Cataphonics are sentenced structured in a way that the reference, he, is placed before the pronoun or subject, Adrianne. Never gave that much thought? Meet Christina (picture in series), who is writing an entire PHD thesis on the matter. Our conversation, and struggling through Bolano's 2666, has me convinced that one of the consistent qualities of well written literature is the constant challenge, and suspense, albeit as briefly as the ten words within a sentence that divide the reference and subject, that writers can engineer without losing clarity.

I'll leave you with a sampling of the food offerings pets have in Paris:


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