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~detritus wrote (thread):

There is a book by Garcia Marquez which is written entirely in one sentence or at most a very few sentences so it pretty much lacks punctuation throughout but it's written in spanish that's too bad I get to read it though mwahahaha but anyway it's not as easy as that you can't just write like you normally would merely omiting the stops and commas because then you are just cheating as you are not really blurring barriers as much as simply pretending that they are not there and that's what's really hard about writing in this way and indeed letting one idea flow into the next without quite finishing what you have to say and instead just keep going in such a way that stops and commas really have no place in your writing which is a difficult thing to do too and ends up littering speech with other markers which in this case are function words linking two separate sentences in one in a manner that precludes adding punctuation because of the very function of these words and I think we can make a contest out of that and write as many words as possible and trying to convey as much as possible in just one long as hell sentence.

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