tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755201066991080505.post966268340621289521..comments2020-03-03T20:36:44.720+11:00Comments on Known Unknowns: Exclusion ClausesEmmett Stinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807858372590246739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755201066991080505.post-18988269118503936552011-11-12T18:36:03.992+11:002011-11-12T18:36:03.992+11:00I agree. I have had to fight for long sentences wi...I agree. I have had to fight for long sentences with editors, even when it was completely apparent (or should have been) that the length of the sentence was a deliberate, carefully chosen stylistic device. Whether long or short sentences are appropriate is a question of voice, not of the absolute value of one or the other. In Peter Temple's eviscerated prose, the short, brutal sentences match the tough milieu and its hard-headed characters. But where would Lolita's HH be without those vast, curlicued sentences, expressing a mind grown cancerously elaborate?Pierz Newton-Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03543526839423103591noreply@blogger.com