weev on Nostr: I'm going to defend myself at this point, in that is a perfectly fine paragraph size, ...

I'm going to defend myself at this point, in that is a perfectly fine paragraph size, and actually quite small, if you consider the historical style standards of the English language. Henry Fielding’s The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) contains single paragraphs that are four times that long. Check out the last and unfinished paragraph on this page of *Joseph Andrews* — that’s a big chungus. I really think people should write like the classics. Longer paragraphs, more passive voice. More periodic and complex sentences, often diluting the subject, verb, object pattern to which we are so accustomed. Frankly English now just sounds like trash. It used to be such a lark, meandering through a rococo smattering of words that painted such a wondrous scene of prose upon the vellum.