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Am more than just a rumor am a sinner.
I like to eat hot dogs.
Hahahauncle don′t why it's just a kid thing than your fault dumb guy.
Despite its occasional use in spoken monologue,
The Very Long Literary Sentence properly exists in the mind (hence
"Stream-of-consciousness"),
Since the most wordy of literary
Exhalations would exhaust the lungs′ capacity.
Molly Bloom's 36-page,
Two-sentence run-on soliloquy at the close of
Joyce's Ulysses takes place entirely in her thoughts.
Faulkner′s longest sentence---smack in the middle of Absalom,
Absalom! —unspools in Quentin Compson′s tortured, silent ruminations.
According to a 1983 Guinness Book of Records,
This monster once qualified as literature's longest at 1, 288 words,
But that record has long been surpassed, in English at least,
By Jonathan Coe′s The Rotter's Club,
Which ends with a 33-page-long, 13, 955 word sentence.
Czech and Polish novelists have written book-length sentences since
The sixties, and French writer Mathias Énard puts them all to shame
With a one-sentence novel 517 pages long,
Though its status is "compromised by 23 chapter breaks that
Alleviate eye strain," writes Ed Park in the New York Times.
Like Faulkner′s glorious run-ons,
Jacob Silverman describes Énard's one-sentence Zone
As transmuting "the horrific into something sublime."
Are these literary stunts kin to Philippe Petit′s highwire
Challenges—undertaken for the
Thrill and just to show they can be done?
Park sees the "
The Very Long Sentence" in more philosophical terms,
As "a futile hedge against separation,
An unwillingness to part from loved ones, the world, life itself.
" Perhaps this is why the very long sentence seems
Most expressive of life at its fullest and most expansive.
Below, we bring you five long literary
Sentences culled from various sources on the subject.
These are, of course, not the "5 longest,
" Nor the "5 best," nor any other superlative.
They are simply five fine examples of
The Very Long Sentence in literature.
Enjoy reading and re-reading them,
And please leave your favorite Very Long Sentence in the comments.
At The New Yorker's "
Book Club," Jon Michaud points us toward
This long sentence, from Samuel Beckett's Watt.
We find the title character,
"An obsessively rational servant,
" Attempting to "see a pattern in how his master, Mr.
Knott, rearranges the furniture."
Thus it was not rare to find, on the Sunday,
The tallboy on its feet by the fire,
And the dressing table on its head by the bed,
And the night-stool on its face by the door,
And the washand-stand on its back by the window; and, on the Monday,
The tallboy on its back by the bed,
And the dressing table on its face by the door,
And the night-stool on its back by the window and the
Washand-stand on its feet by the fire; and on the Tuesday...
Here, writes Michaud,
The long sentence conveys "a desperate attempt to nail down all the
Possibilities in a given situation,
To keep the world under control by enumerating it."
The next example, from Poynter, achieves a very different effect.
Instead of listing concrete objects, the sentence below from F.
Scott Fitzgerald′s The Great Gatsby
Opens up into a series of abstract phrases.
Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby′s house,
Had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human
Dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his
Breath in the presence of this continent,
Compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor
Desired, face to face for the last time in history
With something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
Chosen by The American Scholar editors as one of the "ten best
Sentences," the passage,
Writes Roy Peter Clark, achieves quite a feat: "
Long sentences don't usually hold together under the weight of
Abstractions, but this one sets a clear path to the most
Important phrase,
Planted firmly at the end, ′his capacity for wonder.'"
Jane Wong at Tin House′s blog "
The Open Bar" quotes the hypnotic
Sentence below from Jamaica Kincaid's "
The Letter from Home."
I milked the cows, I churned the butter, I stored the cheese,
I baked the bread, I brewed the tea, I washed the clothes,
I dressed the children; the cat meowed, the dog barked,
The horse neighed, the mouse squeaked, the fly buzzed,
The goldfish living in a bowl stretched its jaws;
The door banged shut, the stairs creaked, the fridge hummed,
The curtains billowed up, the pot boiled,
The gas hissed through the stove,
The tree branches heavy with snow crashed
Against the roof; my heart beat loudly thud!
Thud!, tiny beads of water grew folds, I shed my skin...
Kincaid′s sentences, Wong writes,
"Have the ability to simultaneously suspend and propel the reader.
We trust her semi-colons and follow
Until we are surprised to find the period.
We stand on that rock of a period---with
Water all around us, and ask: how did we get here?"
The blog Paperback Writer brings us the "puzzle" below
From notorious long-sentence-writer Virginia Woolf's essay "
On Being Ill":
Considering how common illness is,
How tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing,
When the lights of health go down,
The undiscovered countries that are then disclosed,
What wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza
Brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright
Flowers a little rise of temperature reveals,
What ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of
Sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of
Annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find
Ourselves in the presence of the angels and harpers when we have a
Tooth out and come to the surface in
The dentist's arm-chair and confuse his "
Rinse the Mouth —- rinse the mouth" with the greeting of the Deity
Stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of
This, as we are frequently forced to think of it,
It becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place
With love and battle and jealousy
Among the prime themes of literature.
Blogger Rebecca quotes Woolf as a
Challenge to her readers to become better writers. "
This sentence is not something to be feared,
" She writes, "it is something to be embraced."
Finally, from The Barnes & Noble Book Blog,
We have the very Molly Bloom-like
But then they were married (she felt awful about being pregnant
Before but Harry had been talking about marriage for a while and
Anyway laughed when she told him in early February about missing her
Period and said Great she was terribly frightened and he said Great
And lifted her put his arms around under her bottom and lifted her
Like you would a child he could be so wonderful when you didn′t
Expect it in a way it seemed important that you didn′t expect it
There was so much nice in him she couldn't explain to anybody she had
Been so frightened about being pregnant and he made her be proud)
They were married after her missing her second period in March and
She was still little clumsy dark-complected Janice Springer and her
Husband was a conceited lunk who wasn′t good for anything in the
World Daddy said and the feeling of being
Alone would melt a little with a little drink.