You can feel reasonably confident, in voting for it, that nobody quite fathoms it enough to question its achievement. Scott Fitzgerald & Other Masters of the Run-On (Josh Jones, Open Culture) Of course, it’s the kind of book a person would put first in a poll like that. According to a 1983 Guinness Book of Records, this monster once qualified as literature’s longest at 1,288 words.ĥ Wonderfully Long Literary Sentences by Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, F. Faulkner’s longest sentence-smack in the middle of Absalom, Absalom! -unspools in Quentin Compson’s tortured, silent ruminations. Molly Bloom’s 36-page, two-sentence run-on soliloquy at the close of Joyce’s Ulysses takes place entirely in her thoughts. Despite its occasional use in spoken monologue, the Very Long Literary Sentence properly exists in the mind (hence "stream-of-consciousness"), since the most wordy of literary exhalations would exhaust the lungs’ capacity.
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