THE SENTENCE: JOHN UPDIKE

A line with deceptive punch from John Updike's short story "The Women Who Got Away":

If my wife held herself like a dancer, it was her lover's wife who in fact could dance, with a feathery nestling and lightness of fit that had an embarrassing erotic effect on me.

 

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