QotD

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-29:

"All the difficulties of the original are here faithfully reproduced. A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case." -- E. M. Forster, discussing the writing style of Marcel Proust.

(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)