by Irving Weiss
there is no reason a sentence can’t be made to go on indefinitely by dispensing with the punctuation of separate clauses and phrases so long as the continuity does not require such interruptive devices and the reader consequently feels comfortable pursuing the argument of the sentence without finding it necessary to enclose groups of words together as distinctive bridges built to avoid the reader’s drowning in the treacherous waters of verbal confusion while the writer keeps on inventing pathways of conceptual advance sufficiently in accord with the developing structure to guide eye and mind with enough ingenuity to satisfy expectations in the course of keeping the progress of the sentence intelligible enough to ward off the dangers of syntactical ambiguity and contextual uncertainty as the relation between plan and execution prevails without provoking questions in the mind of the reader so alarming as to shake the foundation or the walls of whatever construction of words would enable any educated observer looking over the shoulder of the reader to resist relinquishing the effort of exchanging lexical signs and syntactical order for thoughts and concepts that can be elicited from combinations of sequential phrasings until the inevitably arriving conclusion begins to loom into view despite the observer’s gnawing suspicion that a writer so skillful as to fabricate such a monstrous linguistic if not literary phenomenon may not have already decided never to stop until exhausted or to stop at the end of the page with margins set at 1.25 in. vertical and 1 in. horizontal.