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   August Abolins to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   AA> I'm impressed with your likes. Ivanhoe is quite the epic   
   AA> and filled with very "formal"  yet  an  ancient  way  of   
   AA> speaking and writing.   
      
   formal *and* ancient, because most of the  time formal usage   
   is time-honoured usage.   
      
   AA> L-o-n-g sentences!   
      
   But more amenable to parsing  than,  say,  in  M.R.  James's   
   "Jolly corner":   
      
     He  took  it  full in the face that something had happened   
     between--that he couldn't have noticed before (by which he   
     meant  on his original tour of all the rooms that evening)   
     that such a barrier had  exceptionally  presented  itself.   
     He  had indeed since that moment undergone an agitation so   
     extraordinary that it might have muddled for him any  ear-   
     lier  view; and he tried to convince himself that he might   
     perhaps then have gone into the room  and,  inadvertently,   
     automatically,  on  coming  out, have drawn the door after   
     him.  The difficulty was that this  exactly  was  what  he   
     never  did;  it  was against his whole policy, as he might   
     have said, the essence of which was to keep vistas  clear.   
     He had them from the first, as he was well aware, quite on   
     the brain: the strange apparition, at the far end  of  one   
     of  them,  of  his  baffled "prey" (which had become by so   
     sharp an irony so little the term now to apply!)  was  the   
     form  of  success his imagination had most cherished, pro-   
     jecting into it always a refinement  of  beauty.   He  had   
     known  fifty times the start of perception that had after-   
     wards  dropped;  had  fifty  times  gasped   to   himself.   
     "There!"  under some fond brief hallucination.  The house,   
     as the case stood, admirably lent itself; he might  wonder   
     at  the  taste,  the native architecture of the particular   
     time, which could rejoice  so  in  the  multiplication  of   
     doors--the  opposite  extreme  to  the  modern, the actual   
     almost complete proscription of them; but  it  had  fairly   
     contributed  to  provoke  this  obsession  of the presence   
     encountered telescopically, as he might say,  focused  and   
     studied  in  diminishing  perspective and as by a rest for   
     the elbow.   
      
   This  entire  paragraph  feels  to  me  like  a  bumpy  road   
   whereover  one  (I) can hardly walk wighout he trips all the   
   time and falls often, hurting  one's  knees.   I  know  this   
   sentence  is  dubious,  but plead to Edrawd Albee, who wrote   
   (IIRC):   
      
     A man can put up with only so much without he  descends  a   
     rung or two down the old evolutionary ladder.   
      
   -- a strange constuction, perhaps colloqual...   
      
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