by Jordan Dotson | Jun 4, 2019 | Beautiful Prose
The rhythms of Metro Gnomes’re in rain and poems too, and breathing, not just tocks of clocks. …from the neverending well of David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green. by Jordan Dotson | Sep 4, 2018 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
Fitting words together makes time go through narrower pipes but faster. …David Mitchell, Black Swan Green by Jordan Dotson | Jul 31, 2018 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
Green is made of yellow and blue, nothing else, but when you look at green, where’ve the yellow and the blue gone? Somehow this is to do with Moran’s dad. Somehow this is to do with everyone and everything. …David Mitchell, Black Swan... by Jordan Dotson | Jun 17, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
Take most people, they’re crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they’re always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that’s even... by Jordan Dotson | Jun 16, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
…it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses. …from Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell, his best novel, and one of, perhaps, the best five or ten English...