"A
period that, constructed metrically, afterward has its rhythm upset at a
single point yields the finest prose sentence imaginable. In this way a
ray of light falls through a chink in the wall of the alchemist's cell,
to light up gleaming crystals, spheres, and triangles."
- Walter Benjamin, "One-Way Street" (1928), in Reflections (1978, p79).
- Walter Benjamin, "One-Way Street" (1928), in Reflections (1978, p79).
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