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60 mostly short anglo-saxon words and the long sentence, broken into multiple clauses, creates a sense of growing momentum that evokes the fire. Good piece on
by ojbyrne 16y ago
60 mostly short anglo-saxon words and the long sentence, broken into multiple clauses, creates a sense of growing momentum that evokes the fire.
Good piece on this particular subject: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bookclub/2009/08/long-sentences.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bookclub/2009/08/long-...
- eavc 16y agoMaybe so, but the content of those words is mostly clumsy and overwrought.
- Avshalom 16y ago1. That piece does nothing to imply that the style is straightforward, nor does it actually talk about using long sentences with many clauses to create momentum, unless you considered "consciousness and longing" to be momentum-ous. 2. No it really doesn't create a sense of momentum, growing or not, especially when you talk about a town "basking sleepily in the September sunlight on the shore." A vaguely alliterative load of Ss does not make for an exciting sentence. 3. "mostly short anglo-saxon words and the long sentence, broken into multiple clauses" is rather in specific compared to my statement of in general anyway. 4. Tornadoes don't leer, and one would assume it was already traveling at 60 miles an hour so the momentum shouldn't be growing anyway. 5. That sentence is straight up crap.