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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Replying to @vgr
Are you going through all the culture books for the first time? (if so, hell yeah!/https://xkcd.com/1053/ moment)
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Replying to @vgr @von_archimboldi
highly recommend the Hydrogen Sonata regardless if you make it through all of them
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Replying to @parasteatoda @vgr
IMO the essentials are Player of Games and Use of Weapons, but Hydrogen Sonata is def up there too.
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Replying to @von_archimboldi @vgr
But of course the most important question is... What is your favorite ship name????
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Replying to @parasteatoda @vgr
Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath, of course :P
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I did like that one a lot
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Replying to @vgr @von_archimboldi
I named my tiger barb after that ship! The little rascal ate all my other
in the tank, including it's own species...
I've been saving the name Beats Working for another pet. I was really sad when that little guy got in over its head.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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