probably the greatest sentence i've ever read

[patrick]

When it looks as if you had made up your mind finally to stay at home for the evening, when you have put on your house jacket and sat down after supper with a light on the table to the piece of work or the game that usually precedes your going to bed, when the weather outside is unpleasant so that staying indoors seems natural, and when you have already been sitting quietly at the table for so long that your departure must occasion surprise to everyone, when, besides, the stairs are in darkness and the front door locked, and in spite of all that you have started up in a sudden fit of restlessness, changed your jacket, abruptly dressed yourself for the street, explained that you must go out and with a few curt words of leave-taking actually gone out, banging the flat door more or less hastily according to the degree of displeasure you think you have left behind you, and when you find yourself once more in the street with limbs swinging extra freely in answer to the unexpected liberty you have procured for them, when as a result of this decisive action you feel concentrated within yourself all the potentialities of decisive action, when you recognize with more than usual significance that your strength is greater than your need to accomplish effortlessly the swiftest of changes and to cope with it, when in this frame of mind you go striding down the long streets-then for that evening you have completely got away from your family, which fades into insubstantiality, while you yourself, a firm, boldly drawn black figure, slapping yourself on the thigh, grow to your true stature.

All this is still heightened if at such a late hour in the evening you look up a friend to see how he is getting on.


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well, two sentences. but godamn. that's by kafka, by the way. a portion of "meditations."

man.

[patrick]

suze to thread

suze to thread

[patrick]

it's a good sentence, though.

discuss

Eh.

[shutterbugg]

Run on sentence.

You fail.

[Ghetto_Squirrel]

German sentences are typically more complex than American ones, but the translator certainly didn't take any license in working with this one.

[Ghetto_Squirrel]

Coincidentally, I finished reading a compilation of Kafka's works this morning, but this one unfortunately wasn't in it.

[boris the blade]

i daresay that it will live forever on in my memory, if not in my book of badass sentences, as one of the most badass, out of all badass sentences i've ever had the fortune of coming across over the course of the entirety of my life, and that it may even surpass most of those memorable sentences, in degree of it's badassity, and come out near the top of the listing, holding, in fact, a very possible third or maybe even second place, in the overall ranking of those sentences which i have taken to memory, but all of it's glory is put in jeopardy by an especially divinely, wonderful sentence i came across many moons ago, in the media center of my high school, in a book randomly, and stealthily, lifted rom the shelf and leafed through during a rather boring speech i'd heard many times before, and a book whose beauty was discovered only once i'd realized that the beginning of each and every chapter was adorned with a quote somehow thought befitting by someone to the content, however drab it may have been, of that very chapter, and so it came to be that i scoured that book for eacha and every quote that served to begin a chapter, and so, eventually (and stealthily, still), it came to be that i found the quote to end all quotes, beginning some chapter, the name, point, or general content of which is lost to me, and bringing about in me fits of laughter the likes of which have only been seen since on those rarest of rare occasions in which i am brought to my knees or even my stomach in my helplessness, and i find it tolerably difficult to form words from the sound pouring forth from my mouth, and also, unfortunately enough, blowing my cover as an ordinary, innocent pupil, paying his attention and learning his due, but not until, through my raucous, incapacitating laughter, i had miraculously managed to cut the quote from the book (literally, with scissors), and stow it away for safe-keeping and future hilarity, within the confines of my pocket, and so it came to pass that for many, manyweeks, my pants were not washed alone; they constantly had the company of a small sheet of paper, oddly proportioned, surprisingly sturdily built, temporarily forgotten, and sporting the words, "If homocide is regularly indulged in, it can lead to immorality." for all onlookers within that pocket to see and enjoy, but when i became aware of the quote's, and it's associated slip of paper's, locations, i was naturally compelled to free it from that pocket in which it had been washed, sweated on, and much, much more, and to expose it to the light of day, and, some might say, the lights of knowledge and understanding, for all the world to see, read, and laugh at, as opposed to all those contained within this tiny, little pocket, and so i did, and it was good, and the quote and the slip of paper have dwelled in the ziploc bag containing my fortune cookie fortunes and my "3 BUY! 1 GET!" sticker ever since.