Thursday, January 12, 2006

Cellar Door

A famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that “cellar door” is the most beautiful. While reading Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood", I think I came across the most beautiful sentence:

At home, I sat on the veranda, watching the rain poor down on the garden at night and assembling phrases in my head (267).

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