Sentence Imitations
Model: "Across the long span of the years I feel an extraordinary kinship with this aging statesman, this massive victim of pollinosis whose declining days sanctioned the sort of compromise that is born of local irritation." From "The Summer Catarrh"
After a long while, I grew inpatient with my mother, a tightly wound bundle of wires whose edges were so sharp they'd stab if not careful.
Model: "The phenomenon is difficult for me to understand and has not been explained, to my knowledge, by physicists: how it is that, with a continuous interchange of goods or "things" between people, everybody can have more coming in (except money) than going out (except strength." From "Incoming Basket"
This obsession of his has evolved: no longer one seeking pleasure, which made it difficult to detect in the first place, but one that is only quiet when the obsession is answered (in drink).
Model: “This uncertainty afflicts me with a sense of personal deterioration; if I were in decent health I would know how many nights I had sat up with a pig.” From “Death of a Pig”
The music filled me with peace, and when it was finished I felt a great sadness.
After a long while, I grew inpatient with my mother, a tightly wound bundle of wires whose edges were so sharp they'd stab if not careful.
Model: "The phenomenon is difficult for me to understand and has not been explained, to my knowledge, by physicists: how it is that, with a continuous interchange of goods or "things" between people, everybody can have more coming in (except money) than going out (except strength." From "Incoming Basket"
This obsession of his has evolved: no longer one seeking pleasure, which made it difficult to detect in the first place, but one that is only quiet when the obsession is answered (in drink).
Model: “This uncertainty afflicts me with a sense of personal deterioration; if I were in decent health I would know how many nights I had sat up with a pig.” From “Death of a Pig”
The music filled me with peace, and when it was finished I felt a great sadness.