The writer Calvin Trillin, a self-professed “collector of ledes,” describes one of his all-time favorites: a single, unpunctuated sentence about a 600-pound camel who was bit in the genitalia by a woman trying to rescue her deaf dog.
It’s said that when James Thurber, as a young newspaper reporter, was told by an editor that his story’s first paragraph, what newspaper people might refer to as his lede, suffered from wordiness, he handed in a rewrite whose opening paragraph was, in its entirety, “Dead.”
But I also admire the ambition of those long ledes which you sometimes see in the obituaries that appear in the New York—ledes whose first sentence manages to stuff the highlights of an entire lifetime in a clause between the decedent’s name and the fact that he has expired. For instance: “Thomas S.
Notice how the reader is drawn in with a single unpunctuated sentence that starts slowly and gradually becomes an express train that whistles right by the local stops without providing an opportunity to get off. A veterinarian is summoned to administer antibiotics to a camel—pretty routine stuff so far. Yes, the camel lives behind a truck stop, which is an unusual domicile for a camel but probably not unprecedented.
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