Iain M Banks’ Look to Windward has descriptive passages that are just paragraph after paragraph made up of single long sentences. I just counted one at 113 words. You can’t actually read these beasts. You just have to let all the adjectives and nouns kinda imprint your brain.
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It’s an effective technique for visual description. Impressionistic image forms in your head. The scale of the sentence conveys the scale of the scene (here a river on a massive artificial space orbital habitat). Quite clever. I don’t think I’d like composing such things though.
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One of the passages from Player of Games struck me that way; I think it was a description of the city when Gurgeh arrives to play.
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I always struggle with passages like this b/c part of my brain that I can't shut off tells me "you didn't fully take in that last sentence, you must re-read it until you do!"





