He has also claimed that "Eraserhead" came together in his head when he chanced upon a sentence in the Bible, while pointedly refusing to specify which one.
I came upon a sentence in which Schlesinger notes that there were some Republican isolationists who wanted to run Lindbergh for president in 1940.
You come upon a sentence like this — "The world lies before us like a bewildering and stupendous dream" — and sense that these cadences, this particular lovely note of vaunting applause, had to come from Cheever's hand.
Before announcing his decision, Judge Marcus Gordon said: "You have to remember that I have a job to do, and I have to pass upon a sentence to a person who is 80 years old, a person who has suffered a serious injury".
But in a biographical note in a book published after Vishniac's death, Benton came upon a sentence that suggested otherwise: "The Joint Distribution Committee representatives in Berlin asked Roman, who was known for his photographic work, to travel to Eastern Europe, in order to document daily life in the shtetls".
A couple were originally published in The Quarterly, a defunct publication that used to be edited by Gordon Lish, the former fiction editor of Esquire, and was a showcase for his theory of fiction, which was that the reader -- or Mr. Lish, anyway -- would quit the moment he came upon a sentence that didn't interest him.
Someone with an active conscience could come upon a sentence like that, in the middle of a painfully ill-focused story on the endless war, and think she must be going insane.
Upon reading a sentence, semantically aligned content from the mental model is passively activated, which can then be used to establish global coherence.
The sentences were: 'Once upon a time there was a man who couldn't commit.
By contrast, the restoration of civil rights, which is now central to regaining gun rights, is relatively routine, automatic in many states upon completion of a sentence.
