the world in a sentence, part i

Trevor @ Thursday March 18th 2004 08:44

Over the next few days I will be posting in instalments a sentence from Seres Míticos y Personajes Fantásticos Españoles by Manuel Martín Sánchez. Here are the first 68 words:

Hay muchos otros, como se puede comprobar en la lista que se acompaña, siendo curioso que el toro, considerado como el animal totémico español, y que en la Antigüedad fue adorado como deidad, sobre todo en las Islas Baleares, apenas aparezca más que como encarnacíon de uno de los genios de las cuevas de la mitología vasca, quizá debido a que este animal, tan importante en nuestra cultura,

(I know that you will remind me of that 823-word monster in Les Miserables, Joyce with his 4,391-word epic, and Jerzy Andrzejewski with a claimed 40,000 words, not to mention the World’s First Collaborative Sentence, but those were written by people with little or no interest in communication. This is meant to be a reference work.)

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