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Thursday, February 26, 2015

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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A beautiful long sentence in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby : "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s ...

164-word sentence from Jeremy Bentham

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Jeremy Bentham's 164-word sentence: “But partial as the effects of this remedy have been — partial as the effects of this, together w...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

John Locke's 309 word marathon

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A 309-word sentence in Locke's Second Treatise of Government : “It having been shewn in the foregoing discourse, 1. That Adam had no...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard's 330 word marathon

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A 330-word sentence in Søren Aabye Kierkegaard's  Concluding Unscientific Postscript: “If a poor thinker, who is a private practition...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Kant's 174 word sentence

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Immanuel Kant's 174-word marathon in the  Critique of Pure Reason : “Just as for the cognition of an object distinct from me I also n...
Friday, February 20, 2015

469 word sentence in Herman Melville's Moby Dick

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A 469-word marathon in Herman Melville's Moby Dick : "Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as i...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Long Sentence in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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A 188-word marathon in Book 1 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics : “Now if the function of man is an activity of soul in accordance with, ...
Monday, February 16, 2015

179 word-marathon from John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism

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A 179-word marathon in John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism : “But inasmuch as the cultivation in ourselves of a sensitive feeling on th...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The Development Set by Ross Coggins

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Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet I’m off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I’ve had all my shots I have travel...