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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Sentences with info-dumps that take up a third of my screen and are so complicated that I mentally have to rebuild them into separate sentences so I can actually understand them, are not OK. It's certainly bad if half the book is written like that.
Seems to be an affliction that got around quite a lot in the days of the Victorian writers. Maybe they where trying to one-up one another in this regard. (It actually wouldn't surprise me.)
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It's called hypotaxis. It started possibly with sir Thomas brown who was knighted for prose writing in 1671. Long complicated sentences. It was popular from 1650 to 1850. It's very civilized
Fanny Hill is a 1748 porno written in it. See the chapter on hypotaxis and parataxis in The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth. It's pretty funny as well as informative.