After a Kac show last year in Austria, the Biblical sentence came out only slightly rumpled... Of course, we know that subtle anomalies in a strand of DNA can make the difference between, say, a Nobel laureate and a mime.
Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping has this Biblical sentence as a family gives up on the struggle, and shatters: Now truly we were cast out to wander, and there was an end to housekeeping.
Judging by what appears in the online preview, the book, which is riddled with biblical passages, run-on sentences, and grammatical errors, is unreadable.
"This demonstrates how little we've evolved since biblical times," Mr. Stern said of the sentence.
Mr. Crouch's sentences frequently trace a biblical arc.
The language has a biblical tinge, with many short passages and sentences beginning with "and" (there are hardly any capitals in the book).
Every sentence we cherished was sturdy and Biblical in its form, carved somehow by hand-dragged implement or slapped onto sheets by an inky key.
Pasolini had already roused the wrath of the religious establishment with La Ricotta, a 35-minute comedy on the making of a biblical film; he actually received a four-month jail sentence as a result.
And that end was never guaranteed -- although the defense made a convincing case, the judge was a Sunday school teacher who had recently made headlines after sentencing five shoplifters to watch the epic biblical film "The Ten Commandments". .
That book, her first for a mainstream audience, received a mostly dismissive review in our pages from the Rev. Raymond E. Brown, a biblical scholar and Catholic priest who concluded, in his last sentence, that the gnostics' chief adversary, "crusty old Irenaeus," had been "right, after all, to regard the gnostics as the crazies of the second century".
From the style of the biblical text, he learned to build his prose incrementally; the action in the novel builds sentence by sentence, scene by scene and chapter by chapter.
