Sentence in sentence

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So I love that last sentence: "He liked making this book."

Of course this is an infantile story, but thinking up one sentence after the next is the same thing a professional writer like me does.

He merely connected one sentence after another.

Take a look at this sentence: "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug."

Yes, it's the first sentence of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."

Writing such an unjustifiable sentence and continuing in order to justify it, Kafka's work became the masterpiece of contemporary literature.

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence, which is not much different from what a kid does.

What kind of sentence is this?

I was a teenager when I first read "Anna Karenina" and its famous opening sentence, "All happy families are alike.

When I first read that, I thought, "That sentence is inane.

And a lot of men literally don't get beyond the first sentence as a result.

It starts with a very basic English sentence: "John beat Mary."

That's a good English sentence.

John is the subject, beat is the verb, Mary is the object, good sentence.

Now we're going to move to the second sentence, which says the same thing in the passive voice.

And now a whole lot has happened in one sentence.

We've shifted our focus in one sentence from John to Mary, and you can see John is very close to the end of the sentence, well, close to dropping off the map of our psychic plain.

The third sentence, John is dropped, and we have, "Mary was beaten," and now it's all about Mary.

And the final sentence in this sequence, flowing from the others, is, "Mary is a battered woman."

We noticed that the data was coming into our computer very quickly, without any timing of when the images came on, and that's the equivalent of reading a very long sentence without spaces between the words.

So a year goes by before the cancer, as cancers do, reappears, and with it comes another death sentence, this time nine months.

If I could summarize this in one sentence, it would be this: Mathematics is not just solving for x, it's also figuring out why.

I became obsessed with that sentence: "But the truth lies."

That very sentence already reveals the doom, destruction of happiness.

Take this sentence: "I want soup tonight."

And that's why a sentence like "I want soup tonight" is different from a sentence like "Soup want I tonight," which is completely meaningless.

Instead of arranging words in an order, in sequence, as a sentence, you arrange them in this map, where they're all linked together not by placing them one after the other but in questions, in question-answer pairs.

And so if you do this, then what you're conveying is not a sentence in English, but what you're conveying is really a meaning, the meaning of a sentence in English.

Let's take this sentence: "I told the carpenter I could not pay him."

It's a fairly complicated sentence.

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