/lit/ - Literature

Repost from last thread that archived.

Do any anons know of a good resource to better understand long sentences with multiple clauses? I often have trouble when reading something like pic-related, or Shakespeare, or Melville, or Faulkner, where I don't exactly know how each part of the sentence relates to each other part. For example, in pic related I understand each section that is separated by colons in themselves but I don't know exactly how they relate to one another. In my mind, the section that starts "for happening, ..." makes sense in itself but should be followed by a statement of what actions the narrator carries out based on the fact that he is a "fiddler and a painter". But the sentence appears to end and another sentence starts "Be it known to you,..." which makes no sense to me. Am I being too autistic with this? Like I said, I do understand the overall sense of what is being said but I don't understand the structure.

Normally I imagine the commas or colons in large sentences as nested parentheses which helps to break down the structure in many instances but doesn't always work.

Do any anons know of a good resource to better understand long sentences with multiple clauses? I often have trouble when reading something like pic-related, or Shakespeare, or Melville, or Faulkner, where I don't exactly know how each part of the sentence relates to each other part. For example, in pic related I understand each section that is separated by colons in themselves but I don't know exactly how they relate to one another. In my mind, the section that starts "for happening, ..." makes sense in itself but should be followed by a statement of what actions the narrator carries out based on the fact that he is a "fiddler and a painter". But the sentence appears to end and another sentence starts "Be it known to you,..." which makes no sense to me. Am I being too autistic with this? Like I said, I do understand the overall sense of what is being said but I don't understand the structure.

Normally I imagine the commas or colons in large sentences as nested parentheses which helps to break down the structure in many instances but doesn't always work.