Where can I locate Faulkner's longest sentence in "Absalom, Absalom?"?
OK, I found it for you. It's on page 361 of the corrected text Modern Library edition. You can actually read some of the sentence online at Amazon, which has a search inside the book feature.
Where can I locate Faulkner's longest sentence in "Absalom, Absalom?"?
I would recommend a flip through the book. I know the sentence goes on for a couple of pages and found that it begins with "They bore it as though..."
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Where is Faulkner's longest sentence (1,287 words) located in "Absalom, Absalom!"?
I wasn't able to find the actual sentence, but I found this in Absalom, Absalom's Wikipedia entry:
The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the longest proper sentence in English. It cites a sentence from "Absalom, Absalom! containing 1,287 words.
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