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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Ambrose Bierce's Attack on Oscar Wilde

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"That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of twaddle and his penury of sense. He has mounted his hind...
Friday, September 11, 2015

175 word sentence John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women

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John Stuart Mill's 175-word sentence in  The Subjection of Women : "If the authority of men over women, when first established, ...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Virginia Woolf's Word Marathon

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A long sentence in Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill”: "Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change th...
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...