Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again- Frank O’Hara
David Foster Wallace crafted this grammar challenge. There is one crucial error in punctuation, usage, or grammar in each of the sentences below:
1. He and I hardly see one another.
2. I’d cringe at the naked vulnerability of his sentences left wandering around without periods and the ambiguity of his uncrossed “t”s.
3. My brother called to find out if I was over the flu yet.
4. I only spent six weeks in Napa.
5. In my own mind, I can understand why its implications may be somewhat threatening.
6. From whence had his new faith come?
7. Please spare me your arguments of why all religions are unfounded and contrived.
8. She didn’t seem to ever stop talking.
9. As the relationship progressed, I found her facial tic more and more aggravating.
10. The Book of Mormon gives an account of Christ’s ministry to the Nephites, which allegedly took place soon after Christ’s resurrection.
C-Curve sunrise (via Chris_Harrison)
Anish Kapoor’s ‘C-Curve’ has been installed on the South Downs, just outside Brighton. The installation is part of this year’s Brighton Festival. Anish Kapoor is guest artistic director of Brighton Festival for 2009.
Do you know where this needs to be? I do, the roof of the Met.
