Monday, 7 March 2011

Some of my favourite sentences: Part VI

...and I was not immune to the power of that shimmering fiction that any citizen of an oppressive and aggressively nationalistic country will understand only too well: the magical unity conjured by the word we.
From Snow
Orhan Pamuk
page 393 

3 comments:

  1. Oh, yes. Beautiful expression of a scary concept. I must read this author.

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  2. Deborah - It is, right? I absolutely love this sentence.

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  3. Frightening and beautiful. Good pick!

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