molly blooms monologue in ulysses consists of several paragraphs which each consists of one sentence and the monologue itself contains no punctuation marks other than the final full stop it being an interior monologue and stream of consciousness and all although quite how somebodys thoughts arrange themselves into paragraphs punctuated or not I dont really know but what I do know is this Joyce would have had a hard time writing it these days because whenever Bill Gates thinks youve made a grammatical error he insists on trying to correct it the literary philistine swine but maybe Jimmy J would have writ Ulysses on Unixes I certainly think he would have felt at home in the world of email and texts where punctuation and sentences count for nothing and all communication is a direct stream of whatever nonsense is in peoples heads at the time they write it maybe I should ask my neighbour who is a cousin of Joyces mate Sam Becket and has an amazing early edition of Ulysses all decorated and encrusted with stuff by Joyce himself with his own fair hand but now Im sick of trying to write like this and ask myself will I stop and yes I said yes I will Yes.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 May 2005 21:13 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: The Longest Sentence > > You can hear one of the longest sentences here, although > there is another reported to be 40,000 words. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/arts/sentence.shtml > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: John Francis > > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:53:48PM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > I'm about to go off list - but without looking at the answers > > > Finnegan's Wake? > > > > > > One of them has to be in Joyce right? > > > > I'd go for Joyce, but probably Ulysses. I'd pick > Finnegan's Wake if I > > were looking for the longest word (I think there's one chapter that > > consists of just a single word). > > > > >
