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adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.
‘If’ is one long, 294-word sentence, 273 of which are conditional clauses. If you can keep your head, trust yourself, dream, think etc., then you can finally get to the main verb on the 31st line, and then ‘Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it / And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!’
The last sentence of James Joyce’s Ulysses is 4,391 words long and has no punctuation at all, not a dash or a semi-colon from its opening to its last words: ‘yes I said yes I will Yes.’
‘I’ve been too fucking busy, and vice versa.’
It’s the ice-block in your underwear.
