A museum of sentences …

… The Indispensable Humorist. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… I recently read an essay by the theologian David Bentley Hart complaining that in the interest of simplicity modern English prose has been so denuded of character that you can hardly tell one writer from another by the sentences they write. Not so with O’Rourke and not because of any grossly indulgent flourishes. His sentences, like his point of view, were the product of a true appetite for understanding paired with a comedian’s gift for parody.