Longest Sentence Ever

I was reading a book today and came across this monster:

I shall not argue against it from the supposed impossibility of infinite succession, barely and absolutely considered in itself; for a reason which shall be mentioned hereafter: but if we consider such an infinite progression, as one entire endless series of beings can have no cause from without, of its existence; because in it are supposed to be included all things that are or ever were in the universe: and 'tis plain it can have no reason within itself, of its existence; because no one being in this infinite succession is supposed to be self-existent or necessary (which is the only ground or reason of existence of any thing, that can be imagined within the thing itself, as with presently more fully appear), but every one dependent on the foregoing: and where no part is necessary; 'tis manifest the whole cannot be necessary; absolute necessity of existence, not being an outward, relative, and accidental determination; but an inward and essential property of the nature of the thing which so exists.

That is pretty long. Do you think that is it useful to do things like that? Or is being wordy just stupid?

I don't really think that anything with a : or a ; is a sentence. You can go pretty long with those.

By The Way, what the heck kind of a boring book are you reading that has that sentence(You Spelled it Wrong)?

Try reading some Faulkner.

Yeah, it's like 13 thousand words and 128 pages.

That's some run-on sentence you have got there. It could have been broken up into pieces, I mean come on.

quote Sereph

Run-on sentences suck.

That's not a run-on. A run-on has two or more sentences joined without correct punctuation. Everything in that sentence posted at the top is correcly punctuated.

And Faulkner definitely wins this competition.

Holy shit that is a long sentence. But does having semicolons and colons count?

With Proust, you have the added complication of him being French, which means not only are the sentences long and drawn out, but they're also condescending and unnecessarily boring.