Carolina QuotesThe category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.
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Chapter 8, First Sentences, p. 99
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- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
- year
- 2011
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- p. 99
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