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"Stress can cause sleepwalking, which is

  • "Stress can cause sleepwalking, which is exercise, so stress is good for you. Looks like someone just solved health." Anna had a quill-wielding scribe record her every word. Genius
  • " Anna was famously quoted as saying "doesn't just happen. Well, it does, but you've got to say a whole bunch of stuff as fast as you can think it and have someone record it all."
  • Anna believed your fate is determined by the first sentence uttered by your mother at birth, & had practiced for years so that when her baby was born she could continue a run on
  • sentence that carried on throughout her life, passing the torch centuries old from generation to generation onwards. For years and years this practice had continued, cementing them
  • together in a state of syntactic perpetuance, the structure of which grew increasingly and simultaneously sophisticated and annoyingly verbose, utilizing nouns, verbs and yes even
  • dangling modifiers, this hulking, pulsating disgusting sentence continued to run on, belching adverbs, buckling commas, the metastasizing verbal creature had ballooned
  • , digressing, subclausing, spewing adverbial particles, its gerunds self-replicating wildly: this Sentence from Hell refused to die, to punctuate an appropriate termination, to
  • complete it's long march, as this was an endless march, not a long one, with a beginning, but no end whatsoever, since, of course, that was the whole point, and there was no way it
  • would ever come to an end, because the endless march was destined to last for eternity, or at least until the person at the front took 100 steps, whichever came first. Therefore
  • , it ended. Just like this story.

1 Comments

  1. m80 Jan 04 2015 @ 10:53

    This is a gem! If someone wrote a manual on how to "play" Folding Story, this would be one of the examples. :-)

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