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Long Sentences, Big Comments, and Slow-Growing Stories

16 Monday Dec 2013

Posted by Andrew Hilmer in writing

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comment echoing, comment length, long sentences, myriad day, stupid comments

Long sentences exist because of the spoken word, not in spite of it. Short sentences are conversational but only because they follow, usually for no reason, the convention that we speak amongst ourselves only at the sufferance of each other. Conversation waits with limited patience for its turn to speak, patience thinning as the wait lengthens. In conversation, long sentences inspire interruption. Continue reading →

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