Saturday, February 11, 2006

'141' words sentence

This is the longest sentence that i have come across; the longest that exists has more that 1,000 words.

"The school sat among maples on a hillside that sloped down to the wide Taganac River, which narrowed and picked up speed and crashed over Bryce Falls a mile downstream near Morse's small rental house, his embarrassingly small rental house, actually, which nevertheless was the best he could do and for which he knew he should be grateful although at times he wasn't a bit grateful and wondered where he'd gone wrong, although at other times he was quite pleased with the crooked little blue shack covered with peeling lead paint and felt great pity for the poor stiffs renting hazardous shitholes even smaller than his hazardous shithole, which was how he felt now as he came down into the bright sunlight and continued his pleasant walk home along the green river lined with expensive mansions whose owners he deeply resented."

Its a single paragraph, from "The Falls" by George Saunders.

6 Comments:

Blogger Arbit said...

cool man...u are getting hazzar interested in lit stuff..Nice sentence btw..Keep going in this direction da..you mite go places!!

9:31 AM  
Blogger pushkalAn& pattabhiraman said...

nice one !

5:30 AM  
Blogger prem said...

thanx guys...
a few words of appreciation does a lot of difference

12:46 PM  
Blogger SeePearrl said...

hmm...longest sentence that i have come across tooo!

4:34 PM  
Blogger Chittz said...

mm... interesting. have u read robinson cruesoe by daniel defoe of anything by thomas hardy for of those venerate old gentlemen are remembered from thier long sentences... u can try looking them up. I have a feeling they might be longer than this one... :D:D

7:49 AM  
Blogger prem said...

@white: hope u will see a much longer one soon...:)

@amie: no I havent read them, will try and google their names and see what i can find

11:57 AM  

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