Word: paragraphed
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Pynchon dips in and out of perspectives in a single paragraph without notice, fuses reality with fantasy without rousing disbelief and purposefully obscures to make the reader feel the same discomfort and paranoia that his characters experience. His intelligence shines on the thick mud of his prose to reveal its beauty...
...tiny keyboard and trackball. But soon I was able to write entire sentences with relative ease - about 10 words a minute, against my usual 60. After half an hour I was comfortable enough to think and type at the same time. As a test, I wrote the first paragraph of this article and mailed it to myself. Easy-peasy. Incidentally I did all this while walking around the office; this baby isn't just wearable, it's wireless as well...
Your first paragraph goes on to say that you respect my decision not to make a donation (thanks!) but wish to restate the merits of the senior gift. Okay, you're warming up. I'm willing to listen. You even make the gracious gesture of offering me "a second opportunity to make a pledge of $10.00 before Commencement." It's nice that you're giving me another opportunity to take my money-I thought the window had closed. Phew...
...stopped there, I might have been inclined to read further. But the last sentence of the first paragraph really nips that urge in the bud. "Please read through this letter at least once," your letter commands me-in bold. Perhaps you should have added "you stubborn ox" to the end of that sentence, just to make your intentions perfectly clear...
Allegations of plagiarism against Irina Serbanescu '03 began 10 days ago when a reader notified the Harvard Independent that the lead paragraph of the an article in its April 5 issue exactly matched a portion of an opinion piece published in Forbes...