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Re: Run on sentences

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From: Dave Pipes x4552
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:14
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In article <380.2841.uupcb@synapse.org> ian.murray@synapse.org (Ian Murray)  writes:
>"When the last days were upon me,and the ugly trifles of existance began 
>to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let 
>fall ceaselesslyupon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the 
>irradiate refuge of sleep."
>
>      Opening sentence of 'Ex Oblivione' by H.P.Lovecraft.
>
>Is this a run-on sentence or what???
>
Or what, really.  This a pretty short sentence for Lovecraft.  I recall one
that went on for more than one page (in a paperback).  I think that it was
from "The Strange Case of" someone with an old New England name.  Still, he
is a good writer...or is he?

	David Pipes

Well, he *was* a good writer, anyway...
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Subject: Re: Run on sentences
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