I love words. I also hate words. Rarely am I neutral to words.
I was reading Nine Stories by JD Salinger earlier this week and came across these few sentences. Salinger has an amazing command of words, creating the picture, the image of what is happening as you read. Having never read any of his work till now, I agree with my friends who love him. His dialogue and descriptions are fantastic.
"Viciously, with more of a whimper than a sigh, he foot-pushed his top sheet clear of his ankles, as though any kind of coverlet was suddenly too much for his sunburned, debilitated-looking body to bear...His head was propped up just enough to rest uncomfortably, almost masochistically, against the very base of the headboard."
~ from "Teddy"
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