http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/longwindedness Questions tagged with 'longwindedness' at Ask MetaFilter. Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:00:54 -0800 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:00:54 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/35008/What%2Dis%2DProusts%2Dlongest%2Dsentence I'm looking for the longest sentence in Proust's <i>Remembrance of Things Past</i>. In an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114304680789905314.html?mod=djemMM">article</a> (subscription req.) this morning in the Wall Street Journal about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679779159/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">this book</a>, I was intrigued by the following claim: <i>Mr. de Botton fearlessly cuts through Proust's prose (his longest sentence would stretch around the base of a wine bottle 17 times)...</i><br> <br> So my question is: what is that sentence? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.35008 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:00:54 -0800 fiction literature longwindedness nonfiction novels proust reading selfhelp rorycberger