Great sentences
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I read this in a New Yorker piece this morning. It's from the diary of one of their writers who was born the same year as the magazine was founded, 1925.
It's a beautiful sentence.
The erratic motion of a yellow butterfly is immune to artificial intelligence.
Calvin Tomkins
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Gandalf's response to Frodo's anguish about what he had to do with the ring ... "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo ...
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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A favourite and for me fabulous real life moment was when Bob Geldof who, having organised Live Aid in 1985 on two continents, having persuaded hundreds of stars and all that they need to perform to give their time and skill on a specific day, having spent goodness knows how much time, effort, umpteen phone calls...
He walks on stage in front of literally millions of people to start an astounding, astonishing, amazing, affecting worldwide spectacular, and says
"Thanks for coming."
