"But we’ve got shortness and speed up the wazoo these days; what I long for is something that will sustain me and stretch me till something snaps, take me so far beyond a simple clause or a single formulation that suddenly, unexpectedly, I find myself in a place that feels as spacious and strange as life itself."

Iyer, Pico. (2012, January 8). The writing life: The point of the long and winding sentence. Los Angeles Times.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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