A Short Defense of Literary Excess

Another interesting article about the beauty of language from the New York Times, by way of  The Passive Voice:

A Short Defense of Literary Excess

An Ode to the Complex Sentence

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