In Praise of the Long Sentence

[Jochen Stremmel]

His sentence needs a cut: I ass —

2016-04-18 12:52 GMT+02:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:

> "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.
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> 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.
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>> https://meanjin.com.au/essays/in-praise-of-the-long-sentence/
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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