Long sentence
As I left the plant today, the several square miles of drossing furnace and anode rack and roaster, woven together with any-angled piping and tubing, rail-line and conveyor, the Escher-esque theory of everything manifest, spouting smoke into the valley and turning the river copper-blue with chemical discharge in the shimmering light, the apotheosis of industry, coiled langourously on the valley-side like a presiding dragon, I saw a hawk perched on the gatepost, looking around disinterestedly.
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A very long sentence. But a good one.
Posted on 18-May-07 at 2:18 am | PermalinkAs I left the plant today, (time served) I saw a hawk perched on the gatepost, looking around disinterestedly.
I have commuted your sentence.
Posted on 21-May-07 at 2:27 pm | PermalinkThanks meva. Outtacontext, you’re a card.
Posted on 25-May-07 at 2:59 pm | PermalinkYou underestimate me, sir, I am a house of cards.
Posted on 29-May-07 at 7:07 pm | PermalinkWhile reading about the trial of Aaron Burr (what a life I lead), I came upon his indictment, which is the most massive and tangled sentence I have ever read.
Oh my … it has just occurred to me that my sentences do tend to be rather lengthy with quite a lot of jibberish in between and yet I cannot really see myself amputating much of what I type as the words are all strung together in one line of thought that often and usually, more often than naught, tend to go off in a tangent and thus detours the reader from the original intent of what the heck I had started to write about … silly.
Posted on 31-May-07 at 12:53 pm | PermalinkOOC: you wonder what would be the harm of an i.e. at the bottom of that. “i.e. get ‘im, he done plenty bad shit”.
df: ironically that sentence is perfectly to the point!
Posted on 05-Jun-07 at 7:53 am | Permalink