A Plug For Frank Bruni’s Love Of Sentences

Frank Bruni is a contributing opinion editor at The New York Times and every Thursday my day is immediately made brighter when I receive his newsletter in my inbox. The Love Of Sentences portion of the column is always a special treat. Bruni invites readers to submit favourite lines which he shares with us. Like this one:

In his newsletter The Loaf, Tim Kreider rued the self-trivialization of onetime titans. “I saw Hunter S. Thompson — once an important writer to me — speak after he’d become a professional Hunter S. Thompson impersonator: He sat onstage holding boozily forth drinking Chivas Regal and whacking things with a rubber squeak-toy mallet,” he wrote. “It was like seeing an animal that once could’ve skwapped your head off with one paw dressed in a tutu and riding a unicycle.” (Barbara K. Lane, Kings Park, N.Y.)

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