What happens for you when you pick up a book lying on some surface of your home with a bookmark in it so that when you lift it and absent-mindedly thumb the edges of the pages of course it gaps at that location and you glimpse a single-sentenced paragraph:

“In the process the scissors break”* ?

Read it again.  Lie back.  Close your eyes (or not).

That’s what I’m talking about.

“Perhaps the chair slipped -“

“only human beings can recognize catastrophes”

further examples.

And if every  sentence does enough work to be its own paragraph like that?  You’ve probably stumbled upon a great book.

*sentence-paragraph occurs on page 60 (where the bookmark is) of Max Frisch’s Man in the Holocene (what a name for our geological era, eh?  Holo – cene, pronounced hollow-scene, interesting enough meaning wholly now or “entirely present” in its Greek constituents (it’s thus been totally now for over 12,000 years), just saying…