Re: BOXING day?


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Posted by Arthur Randome on December 28, 2003 at -1:06:42 from 213.122.174.197 user Peter_H.

In Reply to: Re: BOXING day? posted by John Lambert on December 27, 2003 at 17:05:16:

In reply to the last message, I disagree. In The Picts and the Martyrs, page 513, Missee Lee says ‘This is longest sentence in Lansome: ‘No one would have believed, in the last minutes of the winter holidays, that television soaps were being watched from a charcoal burner's hut in the woods above the lake, and the race was being watched from the top of Kanchenjunga, and that in the last seconds of low water Adam Quinan’s right cheek was being watched from the lighthouse tree and that Alan Hakim in a Father Christmas outfit was being watched from an island off Rio and that the Swallow is clearly a GRP Laser and that Sammy Lewthwaite will marry Cynthia Dschankilic, and that when I was a captain in the Merchant Navy living in Shanghai we used to use oakum to splice our copies of SA.’’
This is typical of Ransome's long sentences.

Perhaps, Ed, you could do a search for 'long-winded beggar' and prove I am right .



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