An interesting and, ironically, short article in the Los Angeles Times by way of The Passive Voice on the reason it's a good thing not all modern fiction embraces the short, declarative sentence - an idea for which many would say I have an apparent (and extensive) appreciation. Hats off to all writers who like to capture the human mind's tendency towards tangents, ruminative driftage, paradoxical ambivalence and addendums.
The point of the long and winding sentence