There is a fine example of a balanced, parallel sentence in Oscar Wilde’s short story The Selfish Giant, and it would be worth a few minutes to consider its construction and force. The story is a tale of contrition, or if we are apt to find a deeper message, perhaps even of what the theologians …
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Parallelism
We human beings seem to have an innate need for order. The deliberate arrangement of things, whether furniture in the living room or ideas on a page, signifies meaning to us. Design, we sense, reveals an intelligence, and that too seems to be an inborn obligation that pleases us when we find it. One way …