I forgot to add, as a footnote, that the final chapter of Ulysses, Molly Bloom's soliloquy (Penelope), is a 4391-word sentence. There have been writers since who have intentionally exceeded that, but for a long while, I'm fairly certain that Joyce wrote the longest sentence in the English language.
Poet Anne Waldman used to always read that part at the performance of Bloomsday at Naropa University when I went there. It belonged to her and she made the best of it!
I forgot to add, as a footnote, that the final chapter of Ulysses, Molly Bloom's soliloquy (Penelope), is a 4391-word sentence. There have been writers since who have intentionally exceeded that, but for a long while, I'm fairly certain that Joyce wrote the longest sentence in the English language.
Poet Anne Waldman used to always read that part at the performance of Bloomsday at Naropa University when I went there. It belonged to her and she made the best of it!