Reputables_Rotbart - The Monday Morning Memo

“We had won the town and it was early morning and still no one had eaten nor had anyone drunk coffee and we looked at each other and we were all powdered with dust from the blowing up of the barracks, as powdered as men are at a threshing, and I stood holding the pistol and it was heavy in my hand and I felt weak in the stomach when I looked at the guards dead there against the wall; they all as gray and as dusty as we were, but each one was now moistening with his blood the dry dirt by the wall where they lay. And as we stood there the sun rose over the far hills and shone now on the road where we stood and on the white wall of the barracks and the dust in the air was golden in that first sun and the peasant who was beside me looked at the wall of the barracks and what lay there and then looked at us and said, ‘Vaya, a day that commences.'”

“Now let us go and get coffee,’ I said.”

- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, p. 102. Did you notice that the first paragraph was a single, impossibly long sentence? This is very unusual for Hemingway. He was known for short, tight, declarative sentences.

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