The huge run-on sentence consists of 1,288 words and countless clauses.
Nowadays, postmodern fiction writers such as John Barth are still influenced by Faulkners run-on technique.
He once said, It was Faulkner at his most involuted and incantatory who most enchanted me.
William Faulkner in 1954 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Though the record has been broken, Faulkner’s legacy lives on.
Shoot them down like the dogs they are!
They aint whupped us yit, air they?
Here are some other examples of memorable long sentences in literature.
