Outside in » Style http://www.xenosystems.net Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 01:26:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 Sentences (#1) http://www.xenosystems.net/sentences-1/ http://www.xenosystems.net/sentences-1/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:04:42 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=4198 (VPN isn’t working, for some reason, which makes almost everything impossible. No trawling about on the Internet, or twittering, today. In frustration, I’m initiating a new series — it’s ‘Quotes notes’ but decadently devoted to pure style. Feel free to consider it throat-clearing.)

Not necessarily single sentences, but no more than three (as a preliminary rule). First off, from Iain M. Banks’ The Algebraist (p.52):

He cleared his throat and sat more upright, telling himself he wasn’t going to fall asleep. But he must have, because when the screams started, they woke him.

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