In the midst of the best article I have read about the pandemic yet, Ed Yong's brilliant How the Pandemic Defeated America, I was struck by the sentence extolled by Roy Peter Clark as the "sentence of the year."
What helped Ed Yong write the sentence of the year?
Make that the semicolon! It’s a maligned mark in the journalism world but it enabled the Atlantic reporter to build a breathtaking 212-word sentence.
I thought this would be just the crowd to dig into both the article (difficult to understate just how comprehensive and, well, great it is) and exactly how breathtaking (or not) a 212-word sentence could be.
Oh, speaking of great, a 2005 Sea Smoke Botella proved the brilliance of the rule of 15 this past Sunday night with marinated grilled flank steak - just the right balance of maturity and a glimpse of its youth. It ain't getting better. A younger wine, the second to last bottle of my 2014 Clos Roche Blanche Pinot d'Aunis took 2 decants then 90 minutes to rid itself of reductive anger but waiting then was a really wonderful mature wine, itself a fine foil for grilled fresh swordfish marinated using a 60 Minute Gourmet standby recipe. Best pandemic eating in a while. Rereading this paragraph I wonder whether I should have added a semicolon or three.
What helped Ed Yong write the sentence of the year?
Make that the semicolon! It’s a maligned mark in the journalism world but it enabled the Atlantic reporter to build a breathtaking 212-word sentence.
I thought this would be just the crowd to dig into both the article (difficult to understate just how comprehensive and, well, great it is) and exactly how breathtaking (or not) a 212-word sentence could be.
Oh, speaking of great, a 2005 Sea Smoke Botella proved the brilliance of the rule of 15 this past Sunday night with marinated grilled flank steak - just the right balance of maturity and a glimpse of its youth. It ain't getting better. A younger wine, the second to last bottle of my 2014 Clos Roche Blanche Pinot d'Aunis took 2 decants then 90 minutes to rid itself of reductive anger but waiting then was a really wonderful mature wine, itself a fine foil for grilled fresh swordfish marinated using a 60 Minute Gourmet standby recipe. Best pandemic eating in a while. Rereading this paragraph I wonder whether I should have added a semicolon or three.
