Maximum Sentences
A gallery of great writing, or the best things I read today from somewhere in the south of Florida
“In A, D and so on”
“He didn’t strike the piano keys for pitch — he simply opened his mouth and gave falsetto howls — in A, D and so on — they tuned by him. Then he took hold of the piano, as if he saw it for the first time in his life, and tested it for strength, hit it down in the bass, played an octave with his elbow, lifted the top, looked inside, and leaned against it with all his might. He sat down and played it for a few minutes with outrageous force and got it under his power — a bass deep and coarse as a sea net — then produced something glimmering and fragile, and smiled. And who could ever remember any of the things he says? They are just inspired remarks that roll out of his mouth like smoke.”
From: “Powerhouse” in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories by Eudora Welty
Read: At the gym, of all places
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