Impressive. That sentence should be stuffed and mounted on a wall.
Well, I suppose it's already stuffed.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Gudanov - May 11, 2010 5:41:28 am PDT #11350 of 28344
Coding and Sleeping
Connie Neil - May 11, 2010 5:44:05 am PDT #11351 of 28344
brillig
You couldn't have stuck a period in there somewhere?
You smother his art! How dare you!
Sparky1 - May 11, 2010 5:44:16 am PDT #11352 of 28344
Librarian Warlord
One sentence, 538 words (it's a legal doc): [link]
Barb - May 11, 2010 5:47:06 am PDT #11353 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Impressive. That sentence should be stuffed and mounted on a wall.
Snerk. No kidding. I literally had to read through it two or three times to really catch everything he was trying to say because at about word twenty or thirty, I'd start glazing over and trying to find somewhere to put a definitive pause of the sort a period would provide. Don't get me wrong... lovely sentence, lots of meaning, and I get what he was trying to do in conveying a breathless, almost stream-of-consciousness feel, which was appropriate for that point in the story, however, I think that technique works a little better in first person. To me, in first you don't have same the distance from the narrative that third provides (just IMO, mind you) and you can get caught up in the sort of manic chaos that sort of phrasing provides.
Or I could just be full of crap.
Barb - May 11, 2010 5:47:44 am PDT #11354 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Sparky wins.
Typo Boy - May 11, 2010 8:06:19 am PDT #11355 of 28344
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I think Thomas Mann once wrote an entire chapter as a single sentence. Of course the German language lends itself to this...
Gudanov - May 11, 2010 8:07:09 am PDT #11356 of 28344
Coding and Sleeping
In German, you can write an entire sentence as a single word.
Polter-Cow - May 11, 2010 8:08:23 am PDT #11357 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
One of my favorite passages in Absalom, Absalom! includes a sentences that goes on for, like, at least half a page. And the other two sentences are really short.
Frankenbuddha - May 11, 2010 8:09:04 am PDT #11358 of 28344
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
In German, you can write an entire sentence as a single word.
Hell, "backpfeifengesicht" is practically a whole sentance.
Steph L. - May 11, 2010 8:32:19 am PDT #11359 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oy, in the book I just finished, I had to slog through, no lie, a 103 word sentence/paragraph.
One of my favorite passages in Absalom, Absalom! includes a sentences that goes on for, like, at least half a page.
I was just about to ask Barb, "Faulkner?" Other contenders include Henry James and James Joyce. But mostly Faulkner.