Longest sentences in literature

@matabichos26 said in #18:
> Has ANYONE read sentence in #10?

Hey, I read that whole stupid freakin' book (back when I was still stuck in Literature class). Proust too!

@MrPushwood said in #21:
> Hey, I read that whole stupid freakin' book (back when I was still stuck in Literature class). Proust too!

Surely, you jest.

If we put a semicolon instead of a full stop, does that not count as the end of the sentence?

@Passionate_Player said in #23:
> If we put a semicolon instead of a full stop, does that not count as the end of the sentence?

A semicolon does not denote the end of a sentence. A phrase that precedes a semicolon, will have additional meaning or clarification given to it by the phrase that follows the semicolon.

@Passionate_Player
Wrong, the shortest sentence is actually I. (Consisting of only 2 characters as opposed to "No." which consists of 3 characters.)

It's always "me" which is used here right?

To read closingdown's sentence literally, I would not say that "I." is a sentence, it is a preposition/subject and needs a verb included.

@morphyms1817 said in #22:
> Surely, you jest.

Not at all (and stop calling me Shirley).

@closingdown said in #25:
> @Passionate_Player
> Wrong, the shortest sentence is actually I. (Consisting of only 2 characters as opposed to "No." which consists of 3 characters.)
And what is 'I' doing?

If you read any of Cormac McCarthy's books, the whole book feels like one sentence due to his scarce use of punctuations.