[lbo-talk] Who was Charles Dickens?

[Carrol Cox]

Chuck, the first paragraph alone of Bleak House may find its equals in
Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, etc but there is nothing in English better
than it -- and it takes the whole long fucking novel to explicate that
paragraph -- which incidentally does not contain a single complete
sentence. It is a huge cluster of subordinate clauses.

Carrol