“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”
– Joyce, Ulysses, 1922
Says Martin Amis: “the book’s most ravishing sentence”. It’s certainly one of them.
Joyce: “the heaventree of stars”
“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”
– Joyce, Ulysses, 1922
Says Martin Amis: “the book’s most ravishing sentence”. It’s certainly one of them.
D. L. Dusenbury 
My favourite is “Hoofthuds lowringing on the baking causeway” which is about Grafton St.
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