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Prof. Brooks Landon, U. Iowa, Ph.D. U. Texas at Austin. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (Great Courses) (2013). p. 124. Listen to the stri...
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2019-12-08T10:46:52Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T10:46:52Z (over 4 years ago)
Prof. Brooks Landon, U. Iowa, [Ph.D. U. Texas at Austin](https://english.uiowa.edu/people/brooks-landon). _Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read_ (Great Courses) [(2013)](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0452298601). p. 124. > Listen to the striking opening sentence of Joseph Conrad’s story “The Secret Sharer”: > > > On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes[,] resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect[,] as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen[,] now gone to the other end of the ocean; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach. Why didn’t Conrad and other writers use commas as Landon did in square brackets?
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2019-02-02T22:47:06Z (over 5 years ago)
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