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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Path: sparky!uunet!srg!spica!dpipes
- From: dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552)
- Subject: Re: Run on sentences
- Organization: just me
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:14:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.181409.29089@srg.srg.af.mil>
- Followup-To: misc.writing
- References: <380.2841.uupcb@synapse.org>
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- In article <380.2841.uupcb@synapse.org> ian.murray@synapse.org (Ian Murray) writes:
- >"When the last days were upon me,and the ugly trifles of existance began
- >to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let
- >fall ceaselesslyupon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the
- >irradiate refuge of sleep."
- >
- > Opening sentence of 'Ex Oblivione' by H.P.Lovecraft.
- >
- >Is this a run-on sentence or what???
- >
- Or what, really. This a pretty short sentence for Lovecraft. I recall one
- that went on for more than one page (in a paperback). I think that it was
- from "The Strange Case of" someone with an old New England name. Still, he
- is a good writer...or is he?
-
- David Pipes
-
- Well, he *was* a good writer, anyway...
-