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  1. "The minister for policing and crime prevention had her purse stolen at a conference for senior police officers."

    Hard to improve this sentence, try as you may. It happens to be a newspaper article (by #EleniCourea), but this would also make for a fine first sentence of a crisp 80-page novel about the vacuity of modern life.

    Also a good pitch for the plotline of a TV comedy episode.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s

    #SelfReferential #crime #police
    #NewsAsLiterature

  2. "The minister for policing and crime prevention had her purse stolen at a conference for senior police officers."

    Hard to improve this sentence, try as you may. It happens to be a newspaper article (by #EleniCourea), but this would also make for a fine first sentence of a crisp 80-page novel about the vacuity of modern life.

    Also a good pitch for the plotline of a TV comedy episode.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s

    #SelfReferential #crime #police
    #NewsAsLiterature

  3. "The minister for policing and crime prevention had her purse stolen at a conference for senior police officers."

    Hard to improve this sentence, try as you may. It happens to be a newspaper article (by #EleniCourea), but this would also make for a fine first sentence of a crisp 80-page novel about the vacuity of modern life.

    Also a good pitch for the plotline of a TV comedy episode.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s

    #SelfReferential #crime #police
    #NewsAsLiterature

  4. "The minister for policing and crime prevention had her purse stolen at a conference for senior police officers."

    Hard to improve this sentence, try as you may. It happens to be a newspaper article (by #EleniCourea), but this would also make for a fine first sentence of a crisp 80-page novel about the vacuity of modern life.

    Also a good pitch for the plotline of a TV comedy episode.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s

    #SelfReferential #crime #police
    #NewsAsLiterature

  5. "The minister for policing and crime prevention had her purse stolen at a conference for senior police officers."

    Hard to improve this sentence, try as you may. It happens to be a newspaper article (by #EleniCourea), but this would also make for a fine first sentence of a crisp 80-page novel about the vacuity of modern life.

    Also a good pitch for the plotline of a TV comedy episode.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s

    #SelfReferential #crime #police
    #NewsAsLiterature