The Sentence That Is a Story
by Jeff Dolven
Nov 30, 2017
4 minutes
In our eight-part series Life Sentence, the literary critic Jeff Dolven takes apart and puts back together one beloved or bedeviling sentence. The artist Tom Toro illustrates each sentence Dolven chooses.
The first thing I want to do is give you the sentence, so here it is. I typed it, and now you read it, in that order:
And the first thing I wanted to do, but I did not do it, was pray.
The sentence is the last line from an essay by Kristin Dombek, “,” which appeared four years ago in . If you haven’t read it, now is a good time, right in the
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