There's a pitch-perfect passage late in Roxana Robinson's new novel in which the director of a rehab program meets with the relatives of a heroin addict to prepare them for an intervention.
Most of the time it will be crap, but once in a while some perfect, beautiful passage will emerge - more perfect than you could conceivably have done on purpose.
Fitzgerald once sent Hemingway a letter with the perfect final passage for A Farewell to Arms, the ending to the novel that Hemingway wrote thirty-nine endings for himself.
Apply this for the rest of the piece, up to five bars at a time (Go easy! ) For perfecting the passages between bars, do like so.
As a provincial from a Washington suburb, I imagined yoga as the perfect rite of passage into Gotham sophistication.
"It's not perfect, but the passage of the act has led to $40 billion in investment in new infrastructure that will eventually pay off for consumers".
Songs were "pouring out," Mr. Anastasio said, and the band took time to perfect every transitional passage and meticulously map every set list, particularly during what many fans consider the band's heyday, the mid-1990s, as Phish moved up to arenas from theaters.
Go Set a Watchman was by no means a perfect read, some passages were clunky and it doesn't come close to reaching the literary heights of TKAM.
Richard Adams, no stranger to terrifying children with his tales of rabbits being snared or gassed, narrows his eyes and recites, word-perfect, a lengthy passage from an intensely creepy short story by MR James called The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.
I was not there by accident: Loma San Jerónimo is the site of a nascent project by Paraguay's tourism ministry and local residents to promote the neighborhood, which somehow escaped the grid system that characterizes downtown Asunción, all but eliminating vehicular traffic and making its alleyways and passages perfect for kids to play and visitors to wander.
