In Praise of the Long Sentence

[Monte Davis]

"I assert that any sort of sound sentence is superior to any non-sentence
because a sentence contains more meaning than a non-sentence."

It's like a postgraduate seminar in circular reasoning, confusion, and
self-satisfaction just to watch Murnane fail to support that assertion. A
thousand words later, it's actually *less* clear what it might mean.



On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:37 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> An infuriating essay I mentioned here a little while ago has had its
> paywall removed.
>
> The (hugely respected) author spends the first few paragraphs arguing
> that Pynchon and Frank Kermode wouldn't recognise a grammatically
> correct sentence if they stumbled over it.
>
> https://meanjin.com.au/essays/in-praise-of-the-long-sentence/
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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