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I give you the most marvelous pair of sentences in the English language:

I played with a beautiful omelette fines herbes and managed a souffle. But all the time I was conscious of the slow approaching shadow of menace and our unrealized part in it. (I Am Gabriella! by Anne Maybury, as quoted in Joanna Russ's splendid "Somebody's Trying To Kill Me And I Think It's My Husband.")